2 great list sof compelling books on or related to vernacular photography

The first was complied by Bernard Yenlouis. This list originally appeared on his blog, One Way Street. Linked books can be purchased via the project b bookshop.

American Snapshots, ed. Ken Graves & Mitchell Payne, Scrimshaw Press, 1977
The Book of Shadows, ed. Jeffrey Fraenkel, D.A.P./Fraenkel Gallery, 2007
Boring Postcards, ed. Martin Parr, Phaidon, 1999
Close to Home - An American Album, Getty Publications, 2004
The Contest of Meaning - Critical Histories of Photography, ed. Richard Bolton, MIT, 1992
The Critical Image - Essays on Contemporary Photography, ed. Carol Squiers, Bay Press, 1990
Death Scenes - A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook, ed. Sean Tejaratchi, Feral House, 1996
Harms Way: Lust & Madness, Murder & Mayhem - A Book of Photographs, ed. Joel Peter Witkin, Twin Palms, 1994
The Killing Fields, ed. Chris Riley and Doluglas Niven, Twin Palms, 1996
Lady Ottoline's Album, ed. Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Knopf, 1976
L'Amour - French Glamour Girls, ed. Makoto Ohrui, Graphic-sha Publishing Co., 2000
Least Wanted - A Century of American Mugshots, ed. Mark Michaelson & Steven Kasher, Steidl/Steven Kasher Gallery, 2006
Moord in Rotterdam - Diverse Photografieen 1905-1967, Witgeverij Duo/Duo, 1994
Other Pictures - Anonymous Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, ed. Mia Fineman, Twin Palms, 2000
Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight - the John Hinde Butlin's Photographs, ed. Martin Parr, Chris Boot, 2003
Over Exposed - Essays on Contemporary Photography, ed. Carol Squiers, New Press, 1999
Peek - Photographs from the Kinsey Institute, ed. Carol Squiers, Arena, 2000
Real Photo Postcards - Unbelievable Images from the Collection of Harvey Tulcensky, ed. Laetitia Wolff, Princeton Architectural Press,
The Snapshot, Aperture Vol. 19, #1, 1974, ed. Jonathan Green
Snapshots - the Eye of the Century, ed. Carl Eigner, Hatje Cantz, 2004
Summer Vacation/Found Photographs, T. Adler Books, 2000
Torture Garden - Vintage Erotic Archives compiled by Azzlo Discipline, Treville, 1993
Without Sanctuary - Lynching Photography in America, ed. James Allen, Twin Palms, 2000
Pierre Apraxine, La Divine Comtesse - Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione, Yale, 2000
Pierre Apraxine & Clement Cheroux, The Perfect Medium - Photography and the Occult, Yale University, 2005
Goeffrey Batchen, Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History, MIT, 2002
Geoffrey Batchen, Forget Me Not - Photography and Remembrance, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004
Tom Blake, Surfing 1922-1932, T. Adler Books, 1999
Gary Lee Boas, Starstruck - Photographs from a Fan, Dilettante Press, 1999
Christian Boltanski, Le Club Mickey, Imschoot, 1990
Pierre Bourdieu, Photography - A Middlebrow Art, Stanford University, 1996
Serge Bramly, Anonym, Kehayoff, 1996
Serge Bramly & Gerard Levy, Fleurs de Peau/Skin Flowers, Kehayoff, 1999
Elizabeth Breyer, George Eastman - A Biography, Johns Hopkins, 1996
Norman Bryson, Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting, Reaktion, 2004
Janet E. Buerger, French Daguerreotypes, University of Chicago, 1989
Stanley Burns, Forgotten Marriage - the Painted Tintype and the Decorative Frame 1866-1910, Burns Press, 1995
Clement Cheroux & Ute Eskedin, The Stamp of Fantasy - The Visual Inventiveness of Photographic Postcards from the Collections of Gerard Levy & Peter Weiss, Steidl, 2007
T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, Princeton, 1986
Douglas Coupland & Pierre Huyghe, School Spirit, Dis Voir,
Tacita Dean, FLOH, Steidl, 2001
David Deitcher, Dear Friends - American Photographs of Men Together 1840-1918, Abrams, 2001
John DePrez & Lee Marks, The Hidden Presence, Venti, 2005
Gillo Dorfles, Kitsch - the World of Bad Taste, Bell, 1975
William Eggleston & John Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide, Museum of Modern Art, 1976
Hans-Peter Feldmann, 272 Pages, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, 2001
Hans-Peter Feldmann, All the Clothes of a Woman, Art Metropole, 1999
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Das Kleine Mövenbuch - The Little Seagull Book, Walter Konig, 2004
Douglas Fogle, The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, 2003
General Idea, Manipulating the Self, Coach House Press, 1971
Allen Ginsberg, Snapshot Poetics, Chronicle Books, 1993
Nakki Goramin, American Photobooth, W.W. Norton, 2008
Herve Guibert, Ghost Image, Sun & Moon Press, 1996
William Hannigan, New York Noir - Crime Photos from the Daily News Archive, Rizzoli, 1999
Marvin Heiferman, Now is Then - Snapshots from the Maresca Collection, Princeton Architectural Press/Newark Museum, 2008
Marvin Heiferman & Diane Keaton, Local News - Tabloid Pictures from the Los Angeles Herald Express, D.A.P., 1999
Francois Heilbrun & Saskia Ooms, Maurice Denis, Musee d'Orsay, 2006
Heinz K. & Bridget A. Henisch, The Photographic Experience 1839-1914, Pennsylvania State, 1994
Babette Hines, Photobooth, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002
Alison Ferris, The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2003
Don James, Surfing San Onofre to Point Dune 1936-1942, Chronicle Books, 1998
Cameron Jamie, Rugburn, Pinspot 3, Smart Art Press
Martyn Jolly, Faces of the Living Dead - The Belief in Spirit Photography, Mark Batty, 2006
Mike Kelley, The Uncanny, Sonseek, 1993
Michael Lesy, Dreamland - America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, New Press, 1997
Michael Lesy, Wisconsin Death Trip, University of New Mexico, 2000
Barbara Levine, Snapshot Chronicles, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

Barbara Levine, Around The World:The Grand Tour in Photo Albums, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 Mike Mandel & Larry Sultan, Evidence, D.A.P., 2004
Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride - Folklore of Industrial Man, Beacon, 1967
Billy Name, All Tomorrow's Parties - Billy Name's Photographs of Andy Warhol's Factory, D.A.P./Frieze, 1997
Douglas Nickel, Snapshots - The Photography of Everyday Life, 1888 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998
Barbara Norfleet, The Champion Pig, Penguin, 1980
Barbara Norfleet, Looking at Death, Godine, 1993
Celeste Olalquiaga, The Artificial Kingdom - A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience, Pantheon, 1998
Eugenia Parry, Crime Album Stories - Paris 1886-1902, Scalo, 2000
Karen Pinkus, The Montesi Scandal - The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome, University of Chicago, 2003
Anatole Pohorlenko, When We Were Three - the Travel Albums of George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler and Glenway Wescott 1925-1935, Arena Editions, 1998
Richard Prince, Naked Nurses, JMc & GHB Editions, 2006
Astrid Proll, Baader Meinhof - Pictures on the Run 67-77, Scalo, 1998
Mel Roberts, California Boys - Photographs from the 1960s and 1970s, Foto Factory Press, 2000
Mel Roberts, The Wild Ones - the Erotic Photography of Mel Roberts, Foto Factory Press, 2001
Jay Ruby, Secure the Shadow - Death and Photography in America, MIT, 1995
Ralph Rugoff, The Eye of the Needle - The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian, Museum of Jurassic Technology, 1996
Ralph Rugoff, The Painting of Modern Life - 1960s to Now, Hayward Publishing, 2007
Ed Ruscha, Then and Now, Steidl, 2005
Luc Sante, Evidence, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992Chec
Peter Schlesinger, Checkered Past - A Visual Diary of the '60s and '70s, Vendome Press, 2003
Daniel Schmid, Excitation Bizarre, Zyloc Publishing, 2003
Joachim Schmid, A Meeting On Holiday, Neroc, 2004
Joachim Schmid, Belo Horizonte, Praca Rui Barbosa, J. Schmid, 2004
Joachim Schmid, Phantome, Edition Fricke & Schmid, 1992
Joachim Schmid, Photoworks 1982-2007, Steidl/Tang Museum, 2007
JOachim Schmid, Porträts, Edition Fricke & Schmid, 1990
Joachim Schmid, Tausend Himmel, Photographers' Gallery, 2007
Collier Schorr, Jens F., SteidlMACK, 2005
Leslie Shedden, Mining Photographs and Other Pictures - A Selection from the Negative Archives of Shedden Studio, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, NSCAD/UCCB Press, 1983
Rupert Smith, Physique - the Life of John S. Barrington, Serpent's Tail, 1997
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institution, and Practices, University of Minnesota, 1991
Susan Stewart, On Longing - Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, Duke University, 1993
Will Straw, Cyanide and Sin - Visualizing Crime in 50s America, PPP Editions, 2006
Annelies Strba, Shades of Time, Lars Muller, 1997
Guy Stricherz, Americans in Kodachrome, Twin Palms, 2002
Larry Sultan, Pictures from Home, Abrams, 1992
Andy Warhol, catalogue, Moderna Museet, 1968
John Wood, The Scenic Daguerreotype - Romanticism and Early Photography, University of Iowa, 1995
Sylvia Wolf, Ed Ruscha and Photography, Steidl, 2004
Tim Wride, Retail Fictions - The Commercial Photography of Ralph Bartholomew Jr., LACMA, 1998
Bunny Yeager, Bunny's Honeys - Bunny Yeager, Queen of Pin-Up Photography, Taschen, 1994

The second list below was the outcome of a dialogue on Facebook's group: Vernacular Photography Mafia and was compiled by Normin Kulkin, Erin Waters, Bernard Yenelouis, Brad Feurheim and Barbara Levine:

1. Prarie Fires and Paper Moons, the American Photographic Postcard 1900-1920-Morgan and Brown Publishers

2. Snapshots,the Photographs of Everyday American Life. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art publishers

3. 1000 Nudes, Tashen Publisher

4. Not On Your Tintype, by Andrew Daneman

5. Close To Home. Getty Publisher

6. The Book of Shadows. Fraenkel/DAP publishers

7. Other Pictures. Thomas Walther Collection

8. The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978. National Gallery of Art, Princeton University Press

9. Anonymous. enigmatic images from unknown photographers, Thames & Hudson publishers...Robert Johnson Collection

10. Photo Trouvee. Phaidon publishers

From Erin Waters. Some are full bibliography as I took them from my thesis. Others are academic but with photos.

11. American Photobooth by Nakii Goranin

12. The Stamp of Fantasy: The Visual Inventiveness of Photographic Postcards, Steidl

13. The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia, David King

14. America and the Tintype, Steven Kasher

15. The American Daguerreotype, Floyd and Marion Rinehart

16. As We Were: American Photographic Postcards, 1905-1930, Rosamund B. Vaule

The next two are musings on the meaning of vernacular as applied to photography.

17. Batchen, Geoffrey. “Vernacular Photographies,” History of Photography, Volume 24, Number 3 (Autumn 2000): 262-272.

17a. “Responses to a Questionnaire,” History of Photography, Volume 24, Number 3 (Autumn 2000): 229-231.

18. Brown, Julie K. Making Culture Visible: The Public Display of Photography at Fairs, Expositions and Exhibitions in the United States, 1847-1900. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2001.

19. Wagstaff, Sam. A Book of Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff. New York: Gray Press, 1978.

20. Romer, Grant and Wallis, Brian., eds. Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes. Gottigen, Germany, New York, Rochester, NY: Steidl, George Eastman House, International Center of Photography, 2005.

21. Foresta, Merry A. At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2003.

22. "The Snapshot", Aperture, ed. Jonathan Green, 1974

23. Norfleet, Barbara, The Champion Pig, Godine 1979

24. Wallis, Brian, African-American Vernacular Photography, ICP/Steidl 2007

25. Hine, Babette, Photobooth,

26, Divola, John, Continuity, Smart Art Press

27. Sultan, Larry & Mandel, Mike, Evidence,

28. Sante, Luc, Evidence,

29. Bourdieu, Pierre, Photography - a Middle-Brow Art, Stanford University Press

30. Guibert, Herve, Ghost Image, Green Integer Books

31. Barth, Miles, Step Right This Way - The Circus Pictures of Edward J. Kelty, Friedman/Fairfax, 2002

32. Burns, Stanley, Forgotten Marriage - the Painted Tintype & Decorative Frame, Burns Press

33., Henisch, Heinz & Bridget, The Photographic Experience, Penn State Press

34. Boas, Gary, Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan, Dilettante Press, 2000

35. artists books by Hans-Peter Feldmann

36. artists books by Joachim Schmid

37. Keaton, Diane & Heiferman, Marvin, Still Life - Hollywood Tableaux Photographs, Simon & Shuster, 1985

38. Keaton, Diane & Heiferman, Marvin, Bill Wood's Business, ICP/Steidl, 2008

39. Police Pictures, SF MoMA

40. Name, Billy, All Tomorrow's Parties, Frieze Books

41. Burns, Stanley, Masterpieces of Medical Photography, Twin Palms

42. Barbara Levine, Stephanie Snyder, Snapshot Chronicles: Inventing the American Photo Album, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

43. Barbara Levine, Kirsten M. Jensen, Around The World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007

44. The American Snapshot, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1944

45. Michael Abrams, Strange & Singular, Loosestrife books, 2007

46. Pierre Apraxine, The Perfect Medium: Photography and The Occult, Yale University Press, 2005

47. Brian Coe, Paul Gates, The Snapshot Photograph: The Rise of Popular Photography 1888-1939, Ash & Grant, 1977

48. Els Rijper, Kodachrome 1939-1959, Delano Greenbridge Editions, NY, 2002

49. "Pop photographica", Daile Kaplan .. www.popphotographica.com

50."'B&W", Black&White Magazine for Collectors of Fine Photography..
"The Art Of The Anonymous" Special Feature On Collecting Vernacular Photography" , issue 38 August 2005