 He also translated Baudelaire’s "Flowers of Evil" and wrote poems in accompaniment to photographic collaborations with Charles Grogg and Steven Albahari.Photographic History and Criticism
Wood authored of over a dozen volumes of photographic history and criticism, including "America and the Daguerreotype", which was selected as a 1992 “Outstanding Academic Book of the Year” by the American Library Association, and "Secrets of the Dark Chamber", which the "New York Times" named a Best Book of the Year in 1995.In 1988, Wood co-founded the Dageurreian Society and was its first president.