| 1960 | Asia • Japan | Inejiro Asanuma (Chairman of Japan's Socialist Party) is assassinated in the Hibiya Hall in Tokyo by a right wing student. Yasushi Nagao, working for the Tokyo daily newspaper Mainichi photographs the stabbing. (12 October 1960) |
| 1960 | North America • USA | Irving Penn publishes Moments Preserved. |
| 1961 | Europe • Great Britain
| Bill Brandt publishes Perspective of Nudes. |
| 1962 | North America • USA
| Frederick Sommer publishes Frederick Sommer 1939-1962 Photographs |
| 1963 | Asia • Japan
| Eikoh Hosoe and the novelist Yukio Mishima publish Killed by Roses. The ardent nationalist Mishima commits suicide by seppuku on 25 November 1970. |
| 1963 | Asia • Vietnam | Thich Quang Doc, a Buddhist priest, burns himself to death as a protest over religious freedom on a street in Saigon. Malcolm Browne (AP) photographs the protest. (11 June 1963) |
| 1963 | North America • USA | Jack Ruby assassinates Lee Harvey Oswald - the supposed killer of President John F. Kennedy who had died two days earlier. Robert Jackson (Dallas Times-Herald) photographs the exact moment of the shooting and is awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize. (24 November 1963) |
| 1964 | North America • USA
| Harry Callahan publishes Photographs. |
| 1965 | Asia • Japan | Kikuji Kawada publishes The Map. |
| 1965 | Europe • Great Britain | Helmut Gernsheim & Alison Gernsheim publish A Concise History of Photography with the first edition published by Thames and Hudson in the UK and Grosset & Dunlap in the USA. |
| 1965 | North America • USA
| Helen Levitt publishes A Way of Seeing.
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| 1965 | North America • USA | Emmet Gowin publishes Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself. |
| 1965 | North America • USA
| Peter Hill Beard publishes The End of the Game which uses a scrapbook style linking his photographs to the destruction of African wildlife. |
| 1966 | North America • USA
| Walker Evans publishes Many Are Called which includes his subway portraits taken with a concealed camera.
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| 1966 | North America • USA | A meeting is held in the home of Willis Stockdale to found the Antique Photographic Society of Rochester. In May 1968 it changes its name to The Photographic Historical Society which is still active. (14 January 1966) |
| 1966 | North America • USA
| Edward Ruscha publishes Every Building on the Sunset Strip. |
| 1967 | North America • USA | The New Documents exhibition at MoMA in New York shows the works of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. The curator John Szarkowski selected three photographers who were more edgy that those previously shown. The show was a conscious break from the old masters of photography and the rather sentimental humanist approach that had developed with the 1955 Family of Man exhibition also held in MoMA. |
| 1967 | North America • USA
| Ugo Mulas publishes New York: The New Art Scene. |
| 1967 | North America • USA | Andy Warhol publishes Andy Warhol's Index (Book) |
| 1968 | Europe • Czechoslovakia
| Tanks from the Warsaw Pact invade Prague to crush a short-lived period of political freedom in Czechoslovakia - the Prague Spring. Josef Koudelka documents the invasion and the photographs are widely published in the West although the name of the photographer is not given. In 1969 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was awarded anonymously but it was not until sixteen years later that the identity of the photographer is acknowledged. On the fortieth anniversary of the invasion in 2008 Aperture publishes the book Invasion 68: Prague containing two hundred and fifty of the photographs Koudelka took. (21 August 1968) |
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