Publications

Reading Morandi, artist book, L’Artiere , 2024

Scene in a Library, artist book, Penumbra Foundation, NY, NY 2021

Fotograf, #29 contemplation, "Mary Ellen Bartley, Between the Spiritual and the Abstract" by Pavel Banka, volume 16, 2017, Prague, CZ

The Tactile Eye, by Mary Ellen Bartley, twelve page insert in Afterimage, The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Volume 44 Nos 1&2, Summer 2016

Reading Robert Wilson, hand-bound artist book, Watermill Center Study Library, 2015

20 NOW: Contemporary Photographers, by Nagasaki Shaw and Summer Hung, Cite Group, Style publisher, 2012

Catalogues

Mary Ellen Bartley: Morandi’s Books, exhibition catalogue, published by Danilo Montanari Editore and Museo Morandi, 2024

The Image and the Photographic Allusion, exhibition catalogue, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, 2022

Summer Reading, exhibition catalogue, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, 2021

'la mère la mer' exhibition catalogue, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2019

Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, text by Eric Crosby, Thomas Beard, Misa Jeffereis, Lane Relyea and Eva Respini, 2016

Fotofest 2016 Biennial Catalogue, essay "Mary Ellen Bartley, Standing Open" by David Drake, 2016 

Mary Ellen Bartley: Leaning Above the Page, Guild Hall Museum, Interview with Ross Bleckner, 2014

Book Ends, Photographs by Cara Barer and Mary Ellen Bartley, Center for Photographic Art, forward Jerry Takigawa, 2014