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Charles Baudelaire, "The Salon of 1859," in Art in Paris (1845-1862): Salons and Other Exhibitions (Cornell University Press, 1965): 291-98
Walter Benjamin, "A Short History of Photography" [1931], in Classic Essays in Photography (Leete's Island Books, 1980): 199-217
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" [1936] in Illuminations (Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch & Co., 1969): 217-51
Photography bibliography

George Eastman House, including a timeline of the History of Photography
Another Timeline of the History of Photography, from Georgia Tech
A History of Photography by Robert Leggat, with useful links to the Royal Photographic Society in London and other collections of photography in Great Britain
HELIOS: National Museum of American Art Photography Online
Smithsonian Museum photographs on-line (downloadable images; very busy)
Library of Congress American Memory archive, including a selection of daguerreotypes and Civil War photographs
New York Public Library Photography Collection includes a selection of online works
A pop version of the life and works of Edward Muybridge
A photoessay on Edward Muybridge from the Discovery Channel site
Examples of early photography, also from Georgia Tech
The Daguerreian Society: excellent resource site on daguerreotypes from the nineteenth century to the "daguerreotype revival" in contemporary photography