- Carte Blanche Photography 1, The Magenta Foundation: Toronto, 2006, pp. 14-15
- Adamowicz-Clements, Sharona (edited by) Canadian Portraits, McMichael Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, 2006
- The Koffler Gallery “Barbara Astman: Clementine Suite”, 2006 (English) -Garmet, Eldon, “Impulse Archeology”, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2005, pp. 266-67
- Langford, Martha “Image & Imagination”, Catalogue, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2005, pp.185-190
- Murray, Joan, Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century; Dundurn Press, Toronto Oxford, p. 167-170, 1999 (English)
- Mastin, Catharine M., “Changing Spirits: Canadian Art of the 1960’s and 70s”, Kamploops Art Gallery, Kamploops, B.C., pp. 8, 31-32, 1998
- Barbara Astman: Personal Persona, A 20-year Survey, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1995
- Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario. Barbara Astman: Personal/Persona A 20-Year Survey Exhibition, 1995. Essay by Liz Wylie.
- Tippet, Maria. By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1992, pp. 171-172.
- Exhibition catalogue: The Koffler Gallery, North York, Ontario. Rock, is there something you’re not telling me?, 1990. Essay by Ihor Holubizky.
- Exhibition catalogue: Maison des Arts de Laval, Quebec,Photo Géniques, 2000 Essay by Monique B.Weinmann
- Exhibition catalogue: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario. Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989), 1989.
- Canadian Encyclopedia, The. (entry by Karyn Elizabeth Allen) Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1985, Vol. I, p. 110.
- Exhibition catalogue: Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland: Visual Facts, essay by Michael Tooby, 1985.
- Bayer, Fern. The Ontario Collection. Toronto: Ontario Heritage Foundation and Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1984, pp. 275, 297, 298.
- Bennett, Bryan, and Constance P. Hall, Discovering Canadian Art, Learning the Language. Toronto: Prentice Hall Canada Inc., 1984, p. 57.
- Exhibition catalogue: Canada House Cultural Centre Gallery, London, England. Art by Design, 1984.
- National Film Board of Canada, Contemporary Canadian Photography from the Collection of the National Film Board. (Foreward by Hugh MacLennan, Introduction by Martha Langford) Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1984, p 110.
- Burnett, David and Schiff, Marilyn. Contemporary Canadian Art. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1983, pp. 207-208.
- Exhibition catalogue: Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta: Barbara Astman: Places, essay by Karyn E. Allen, 1983.
- Exhibition catalogue: Centre culturel canadien, Paris. Barbara Astman: Rouge/Red, exhibition catalogue with essay by Karyn Allen, 1982.
- Parkin, Jeanne. Art in Architecture. Toronto: Visual Arts Ontario, 1982, p. 125.
- Exhibition catalogue: Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario: Barbara Astman, 1982.
- Exhibition catalogue: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta. Barbara Astman: Red, essay by Adele Freedman, 1981.
- Exhibition catalogue: George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Electroworks, 1979. Essay by Marilyn McCray.
- Exhibition Catalogue: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Translations: Photographic Images with New Forms, 1979.
- Exhibition Catalogue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, The, Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Winnipeg Perspective, essay by Karyn Allen, 1979.
- Firpo, Patrick, Alexander, Lesler, Katayangi, Claudia and Ditlea, Steve. Copy Art. New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1978, pp. 48-49.
- Wade, Kent. Alternative Photographic Processes. New York: Morgan and Morgan Inc., 1978, colour insert.
- Haskell, Molly and Hayes, Danielle B., Women Photograph Men. New York: William Morrow and Co. Inc., 1977, p. 118.
- Exhibition catalogue: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Colour Xerography, 1976. Curated by Karyn Allen.
- Art Gallery of Ontario (with Gage Publishing Ltd.), Toronto. Exposure: Canadian Contemporary Photographers, 1975, p. 114.
- National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa. The National Film Board Salutes International Women’s Year, 1975, reprinted as Monk, Lorraine, The Female Eye/Coup d’oeil féminin, Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada, 1975
- Canadian Encyclopedia Plus, The. (entry by Karyn Elizabeth Allen) Toronto, McCelland and Stewart, 1966, CD Rom.