Monographs
David Stephenson: Gothic vaults: the geometry of transcendence, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, forthcoming 2009.
David Stephenson: Visions célestes: Les plus belles coupoles d'Europe, Éditions Citadelles & Mazenod, Paris, 2007.
Jorge Calado: David Stephenson: Sublime Symmetries, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2006.
David Stephenson: Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2005.
David Stephenson (with essay by Greg French): Skeletons, Space + Light Editions, Hobart, 2003.
David Stephenson (with essay by Keith F. Davis): Stars, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Space + Light Editions, Hobart, 1999.
David Stephenson (with essay by Victoria Hammond): Cupolas, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, and Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, 1996.
Books and exhibition catalogs
Daniel Palmer: “David Stephenson”, chapter in Blair French and Daniel Palmer: Twelve Australian Photo-Artists, Piper Press, Sydney, 2008
Alison Kubler: Neo-Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Museum of Art,
Brisbane, Australia, 2008
John Stringer: Cross Currents: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2007
Jorge Calado: Ingenuidades: Fotografia e Engenharia 1846-2006, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2006.
Isobel Crombie and Susan van Wyk: Second Sight: Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003.
Charles Green and Jason Smith: Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002.
Jan Schall, editor: Tempus Fugit: Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and University of Washington, Seattle, 2001.
Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Space + Light Editions, Hobart, 1999.
Blair French, editor: Photo files: an Australian photography reader, Power Publications, Power Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1999.
Susan Van Wyk: Sublime Space: David Stephenson Photographs, 1989-98,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1998.
Keith F. Davis: An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital (2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged), Abrams, New York, 1998.
Jorge Calado: A Prova de Agua/Waterproof, Edition Stemmle, Zurich, 1998.
David Stephenson : "Transfigurations", 5 colour illustrations pp. 98-103, in Pedersen, B M , editor: Fine Art Photography 2, Graphis Inc, New York, 1997.
Victoria Hammond, editor: Brushing the Dark- Recent Art and Tasmania, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart, 1996.
Peter Hay, editor: Imagine Nature, School of Art, University of Tasmania, 1996.
Anne Kirker: The Power to Move, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996.
Alasdair Foster, Ken Gill, and Euan McArthur, editors: Fotofeis '95- International Festival of Photography in Scotland, Fotofeis Ltd, Edinburgh, 1995.
Edward Colless: The Error of My Ways, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1995.
Stuart Koop and David Stephenson: The Ice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1994.
Museum of Fine Arts: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable, Houston, 1994.
Keith F. Davis: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Hallmark, Kansas City, 1994.
David Stephenson: "Marks in the Landscape: Notes 1979-1991", Our Common Ground- A Celebration of Art, Place & Environment, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects & The Centre for Environmental Studies, Hobart, 1994.
Ray Arnold: To the Surface-Contemporary Landscape, Plimsol Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, 1993.
Juliana Engberg: Location, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1992.
John Mcqueenie: 42° South, Chameleon, Hobart 1991
Fred Levine: "And we fill the void with our presence- An introduction to the photographs of David Stephenson", Vast: Photographs from Europe and Antarctica 1990-91, by David Stephenson, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 1991
National Association for Visual Arts: Who's Who of Australian Artists, Thorpe, Melbourne, 1991.
Max Germaine: Artists and Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990
Sue Backhouse: Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century, Pandani Press, Hobart, 1988
Jim Logan: Night, Nacht, Noir, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, 1989
Anne MacDonald: Tableaux Mourant, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1989
Helen Ennis: Australian Photography: The 1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and Melbourne Oxford University Press, Oxford, Auckland, New York, 1988
Sandra Byron: The CSR Photography Project Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1988
Jonathon Holmes: Photogenics: Works From The University Collection, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1987
David Stephenson: Mountain/Sea, Chameleon, Hobart, 1987
Graeme Sturgeon: The New Romantics, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1987
Tom Patton: New Views: Landscape Photographs From Two Continents University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1986
Christine Godden: CSR Photography Project: Selected Works, CSR, Ltd. Sydney, 1986
Jan McDonald: Australian Artists' Index, Arts Libraries Society, Sydney, 1986.
David Stephenson: New Landscapes: Photographs From Two Continents University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1985
Ray Arnold: Approaching Landscape, Chameleon, Hobart 1985
Glen Puster and Gayle Pollard: Not a Picture Show, Hobart, 1983
Bernice Murphy: Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tasmanian School of Art: Extended Landscape, Hobart, 1983
Harvey Himmelfarb and Roger D. Clisby: Large Spaces in Small Places, A Survey of Western Landscape Photography: 1850-1980, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1980
Boulder Arts Center: Exposure: Ideas and Images in Contemporary Photography, Boulder, Colorado, 1979
Articles and Reviews
Robert Nelson: “Sublime infinity beyond the ceiling”, The Age, Melbourne, February 6, 2008.
Brian Sholis: “David Stephenson, Julie Saul Gallery, New York”, artforum.com/critics’ picks, September 14, 2007.
Margarett Loke: “David Stephenson: Heaven”, The New York Times, February 11, 2000.
Stuart Koop: “David Stephenson”, Art/Text, No. 64, Sydney, February 1999.
Peter Timms: “Finding that uncool beauty in nature”, The Age, Melbourne, 5 May 1999.
Elisabeth Kirsch: “David Stephenson: Domes”, Kansas City Star, July 29, 1999.
Anna Clabburn: “Male artists meet the heroic challenge”, The Age, Melbourne, 16 September 1998.
Courtney Kidd: "The Unframed Eye: Perspectives on Antarctica", Art and Australia, Volume 33, Number 4, Sydney, 1996.
John MacDonald: "Peaks of inspiration", Sydney Morning Herald, 4 May 1996.
Giles Auty: "Theories with holes", The Weekend Australian, 11-12 May 1996.
Susan Falkiner: "Brushing the Dark", Art Monthly Australia, No. 90 June 1996.
Barb Smith: "Fotofeis International Festival of Photography in Scotland", Art Monthly Australia, No. 90 June 1996.
Freda Freiberg: "Photography"(review of Transfigurations at Robert Lindsay Gallery), The Age, Melbourne, 20 September 1996.
Michael Read: "Phenomena", in See, Issue 1:4, The Friends of Photography,San Francisco, 1995.
Adrian Colman: "Time and the Photographer", Research News No. 6, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1993.
Jonathon Holmes: "The Green and the Wild: Dark Nature, Anne MacDonald and David Stephenson", Artlink,
Elwyn Lynn: "Exposure to contrast", The Weekend Australian, July 31-August 1, 1993.
Elwyn Lynn: "Photos to go places", The Weekend Australian, August 7-8, 1993.
Greg Neville: "Conditioned Reflex", The Age, Melbourne, December 15, 1993.
"Breaking Rules, Okay", Australian Photography, Sydney, December 1993.
Greg Neville: "An art in search of identity", The Age, Melbourne, December 31, 1993.
Robert Rooney: "Focus on Asian Relations", The Weekend Australian, December 5-6, 1992.
Sean Kelly: "42 Degrees South", Art & Text, Number 39, May 1991, Melbourne
Greg Neville: "Stephenson has nature's power of astonishment", The Age, Melbourne, 22 November 1991
Edward Colless: "David Stephenson", Photofile, Number 34, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, December 1991
Stephanie Radok: "Anti-aesthetics", Artlink, Vol 11 No 4, Summer 1991/92, Adelaide, 1991.
Beatrice Faust: "Focus is on the dignity of labor", The Age, Melbourne, 2/3/90
Stuart Koop: "David Stephenson at Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery", Agenda, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 1990
Photographs reproduced in Island , Issue 45, Spring 1990, Hobart
David McDowell: "Playing Dead and Other Affectations", Photofile, Summer 1989-90
Susan Leggett: "Monumental landscapes related to man", The Mercury, Hobart. 9/9/89
Edward Colless: "Hobart Commentary", Art and Australia, September 1989
Beatrice Faust: "Glamour, mystery, and magic", The Age, 24/6/87, Melbourne
Heather Curnow: "Mountain/Sea", Photofile, Sydney, Spring 1987
Heather Curnow: "Talented interpreter captures essence of Tassie landscape", The Mercury, 6/8/87, Hobart
John McDonald: "Romantics under the umbrella", Sydney Morning Herald, 26/9/87
Elwyn Lynn: "Rescued from their ersatz agony", The Weekend Australian, 26-27/9/87
Mark Hinderacker: "Panoramas..", Sydney Morning Herald, April 1,1985
Jonathon Holmes: "Resuming our journey into the landscape...", Art and Australia, Volume 22, Number 4, Sydney, 1985
Geoffrey Lea: "Baring nature's soul", The Mercury, 20/7/85, Hobart
Brian Allison: "David Stephenson", Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Autumn 1984
Jonathon Holmes: "Provincialism and Art", Island 14, Hobart, 1983
Marion Hardman: "Not a Picture Show (Calling the Shots)", supplement to Island 16, Hobart, 1983
Jonathon Holmes: "Not a Picture Show", Photofile Spring 1983 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1983
Annette Van den Bosch: "Anzart-in-Hobart", Art Network Winter 1983, Melbourne, 1983
Jonathon Holmes: "Contemporary Visual Arts in Tasmania", Australian Art Review, Sydney, 1983
Jonathon Holmes: "Contemporary Visual Arts in Tasmania", Studio International, Volume 196, Number 1002, London, October 1983
Ben Lifson: "The Conscience of Collections", The Village Voice, July 22-28, New York, 1981
Visual Studies Workshop: Afterimage, Volume 8, Number 5, Rochester, New York,1980
Ned Rifkin: "Southwest 1978- Works on Paper", Artweek, Number 18, San Francisco, 1978
