Books

The Life and Death of Buffalo’s Great Northern Grain Elevator: 1897-2023 (SUNY Press, 2024)

Ephemera 1995-2022:: On people, politics, art, justice, torture and war (BlazeVox, 2023)

Folklore Matters: Incursions in the Field 1965-2021 (SUNY Press, 2024)

Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, revised ed. (SUNY Press, 2024; orig. pub. Harvard University Press, 1974; rep. Routledge, 2004) )

The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories. Expanded edition (SUNY Press, 2022; orig. pub. Temple University Press, 2007)

Ways of the Hand: A Photographer’s Memoir (SUNY Press, 2022)

Voices from Death Row, second edition (SUNY Press, 2022, with Diane Christian.) (Revised edition of Death Row, Beacon Press, 1980; French ed., Le Quartier de la mort, Editions Terre Humaine, Paris: Plon, 1985; 2nd French ed. with additional photographs 1986; 3^rd French edition with new post-face, 2011)

Changing Tense: Thirty memento mori (BlazeVox, 2021)

Robert Creeley on the Poet’s Work. In Conversation with Bruce Jackson (BlazeVox, 2020)

Deux jours à La Ribaute: A celebration at Atelier Anselm Kiefer (Room With a View Press, 2020)

Yevtushenko in Buffalo (with Tanya Shalina-Conte. Center Working Papers, 2020)

Places: Things heard, things seen (BlazeVox, 2019)

Babel: The First Ten Years (photographs) (Just Buffalo, 2018, ed. by Barbara Cole)

Terlingua Necropolis. (Synergistic Press, 2017)

I Look at Diane Christian/Diane Christian Looks at Me.  Photographs 1971-2017 (Synergistic Press, 2017)

American Chartres: Buffalo’s Waterfront Grain Elevators (photographs) (SUNY Press, 2016)

Being There: Bruce Jackson, Photographs 1962-2012 (Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, 2013)

Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons (University of Texas Press. 2013)

“In this timeless time”: Living and Dying on Death Row in America (with Diane Christian. University of North Carolina Press and Duke Center for Documentary Studies, 2012)

Candelaria West (Center Working Papers 2012)

Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland (Center Working Papers, 2011; catalog for Albright-Knox exhibit noted below)

“American Chartres”: Buffalo’s Waterfront Elevators. (Center Working Papers and UB Anderson Gallery. 2011)

Seeing in the Dark: The Buffalo Film Seminars 2000-2010 (with Diane Christian, Center Working Papers, 2010. Fourth expanded edition of The Buffalo Film Seminars)

Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture (Temple University Press, 2009)

Cummins Wide: Photographs from the Arkansas Prison (Center for Documentary Studies/Center Working Papers, 2008)

Late Friends (Center Working Papers 2005)

The Peace Bridge Chronicles (Center Working Papers 2003)

Emile de Antonio in Buffalo (editor, Center Working Papers, 2003)

The World Observed: Reflections on the Fieldwork Process (co-editor, with Edward D. Ives, University of Illinois Press, 1996)

Disorderly Conduct (political and social essays, 1992, University of Illinois Press)

The Centennial Index: 100 Years of Journal of American Folklore (co-editor, with Michael Taft and Harvey Axlerod, American Folklore Society, 1988)

A User's Guide: Freeware, Shareware, and Public Domain Software (New South Moulton Press, 1988)

Fieldwork (University of Illinois Press, 1987)

Feminism and Folklore (ed., Special expanded issue of JAF, American Folklore Society, 1987)

Rainbow Freeware (New South Moulton Press, 1986)

Law and Disorder: Criminal Justice in America (University of Illinois Press, 1985)

Teaching Folklore (ed., American Folklore Society and Documentary Research, 1984; 2nd ed., 1989; also a publication of the Modern Language Association)

Doing Drugs (with Michael Jackson, St. Martin's, 1983)

Your Father's Not Coming Home Any More (ed., Richard Marek/ Putnam's, 1981)

Get the Money and Shoot: The DRI Guide to Funding Documentary Films (1981, Documentary Research. Rev. ed., with Diane Christian, 1986)

The Programmer (novel, Doubleday, 1979)

Killing Time: Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary (photographs. Cornell University Press, 1977)

Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons (Harvard University Press, 1972, 2nd paperback edition, with additional photographs and new introduction University of Georgia Press, 2000)

 In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972: French editions with title Leurs Prisons, preface by Michel Foucault, Editions Terre Humaine, Paris: Plon, 1975 and with new signature of my photographs, 1978)

A Thief's Primer (Macmillan, 1969, paperback title Outside the Law)

The Negro and his Folklore in 19th Century Periodicals (ed., American Folklore Society and University of Texas Press, 1967) (Most recent reprint: 2014.)

Folklore and Society (ed., Folklore Associates, 1966)

Plays based on my books and recordings:

The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons” A Record Interpretation, directed by Kate Valk and first presented by the Wooster Group in New York, 2017. Subsequently in Taiwan, Korea, Brooklyn,  Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Austin.

Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, directed by Kate Valk. The Wooster Group, in collaboration with Eric Berryman. Preview performances September 16-October 8, 2022; January 11-February , 2024. The Performing Garage, New York.