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Bibliography
for All Courses
This is a bibliography that will give you a good
background in important issues for photography.
The following books are in the Wellesley
College Art Library. Articles and other xeroxed materials
are in crates in the classroom. Please read them
in the classroom or xerox them to read elsewhere.
There are photo journals, newsletters from non-profit
photo organizations and sundry periodicals available
in the Art Library and the photo classroom. Of
particular interest are Afterimage, Contact Sheet/
Light Work, and the Photographic Resource Center
Newsletter. The PRC Newsletter and website contains
exhibit and lecture listings for the greater
Boston and New England area.
Design and Composition Issues
* Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception.
University of California Press, 1974
* Arnheim, Rudolf. The Power of the Center:
A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts. University
of California Press, 1988
* Dondis, Donis A. A Primer of Visual Literacy.
MIT Press, 1973
* Kandinsky, Wassily. Point and Line to Plane.
Dover Books, 1926
History
and Theory
* Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1984
* Szarkowski, John.The Photographer's Eye.
Museum of Modern Art, 1966
* Szarkowski, John. Looking At Photographs, 1973
* Szarkowski, John. Mirrors and Windows, MoMA,
1978
Technical
Texts
*Horenstein, Henry. Black and White
Photography, A Basic Manual, 3rd
edition. Little Brown, 2005
*Horenstein, Henry. Beyond Basic Photography.
Little Brown
*Laytin, Peter. Camera Controls. Focal
Press
*Vestal, David. The Art of Black and White
Enlarging
*Vestal, David. The Craft of Photography
Theoretical Texts
*Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. 1981
*Bayer, Johnathan. Reading Photographs. Pantheon Books, 1977
*Barrett, Terry. Criticizing Photographs, 3rd edition
*Berger, John. Ways of Seeing
*Sekula, Alan. "On the Invention of Photography," in The
Contest of
Meaning, Richard Bolton. MIT Press, 1993
*Shore, Stephen. The Nature of Photographs, 1998
*Sontag, Susan. On Photography, 1973
Articles
*Ballerini, Julia. Photography as a Charitable Weapon
*Belz, Carl. "Purities and Impurities,"
in Art New England
*Green,
Jesse. When Political Art Mattered
*Harbutt, Charles. I Don't Take Pictures, Pictures Take Me
*Sontag,
Susan. Looking at War
*Sontag,
Susan. What have we done?
*Stallabrass, Julian. The Fate of Photojournalism
*Tucker, Anne. Introduction, Woman's Eye in Woman's Eye, Houston
Museum
of Modern
Art
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