Frances Benjamin Johnston: Bibliography & Resources

Books, documentaries, and scholarly resources

Books

1966

The Hampton Album: 44 Photographs by Frances B. Johnston from an Album of Hampton Institute

Lincoln Kirstein (introduction)

The Museum of Modern Art's publication of selections from Johnston's Hampton Institute series, with an introduction and a note on the photographer by Lincoln Kirstein, which brought the album to wide attention.

1974

A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1910

Pete Daniel and Raymond Smock

An illustrated study of Johnston's early career drawing on her Library of Congress papers, presenting her portraits and documentary work as both photographic art and a record of American life.

ISBN: 978-0517516423

2000

The Woman Behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952

Bettina Berch

The first full-length biography of Johnston, illustrated with examples of her work and tracing the range of her career and her independent, unconventional character.

ISBN: 978-0813920092

Exhibition Catalogs

2019

Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album

Sarah Hermanson Meister

The Museum of Modern Art's publication accompanying its renewed presentation of the Hampton Album, reproducing the series and reconsidering its history and meaning.