Readings

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Watch at least one of the Videos about Photographic Processes made by the George Eastman House.

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Warren, Bruce. "Technical History of Photography." In Photography: The Concise Guide. 2nd ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 9780495897804. [Preview with Google Books]

Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé. "Daguerreotype." In Classic Essays on Photography. Edited by Alan Trachtenberg. Leete's Island Books, 1980. ISBN: 9780918172082.

Manovich, Lev Official Website. Photography After Photography. Exhibition Catalog, 1995.

Read at Least 3 Photography Exhibition Reviews:

Exhibition Reviews by Sarah Moroz: "Sarah Moroz: A Media Portfolio." Sarah Moroz's tumblr page.

Reviews by Sean O'Hagan: Profile: Sean O'Hagan. The Guardian.

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Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Hill and Wang, 2010, pp. 63–73. ISBN: 9780374532338.

[Myth] "The Harcourt Actor."

Grenier, Roger. A Box of Photographs. University Of Chicago Press, 2013, pp. 6–11 and 107. ISBN: 9780226308319. [Preview with Google Books]

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Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. ISBN: 9781453722480.

[NHP] "Artistic Aspirations: The Lure of the Fine Art."

Krauss, Rosalind. "The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism." October 19 (1981): 3–34.

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Rob Hooley. "André Kertesz BBC Master Photographers." April 14, 2013. YouTube.

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Morand, Paul. "Foreword." In Paris by Night. Pantheon, 1988. ISBN: 9780394755526.

Stallabras, Julien. Paris Pictured: Street Photography 1900–1968. Royal Academy of Arts, 2009. ISBN: 9781903973028.

Meyerowitz, and Westerbeck. "An American in Paris." In Bystander: A History of Street Photography. Bulfinch, 2001. ISBN: 9780821227268.

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Baudelaire, Charles. The Salon of 1859. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781503306233.

[NHP] "Photographic Institutions and Practices."

Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. "Calotypomania: The Gourmet Guide to Nineteenth-century Photography." In Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices. University of Minnesota Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780816619146.

Photography and Literature

Special Guest: Carrie O'Connor

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Tournier, Michel. The Golden Droplet (La Goutte D'Or). Translated by Barbara Wright. Doubleday, 1987, pp. 1–50, 69–76, 88, and 94–95. ISBN: 9782070379088.

Zola. La Bête Humaine. Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. ISBN: 9781466260375.

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"Harold "Doc" Edgerton - How Fast is Fast?" From the Vault Video Collection. MIT+150. Produced by MIT Video Productions for the Edgerton Foundation, 1994.

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[NHP] "The Body of Evidence" and "The All Powerful Eye."

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Steinorth, Karl. "Photography for Everyone." In You Press the Button We Do the Rest: The Birth of Snapshot Photography. Dirk Nishen Publishing, 1988. ISBN: 9781853780103.

Alloula, Malek. The Colonial Harem. University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp. 1–26. ISBN: 9780816613847.

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Tom Johnston. "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment." Novermber 19, 2012. YouTube.

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Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment. Steidl, 2015. ISBN: 9783869307886. [Buy from Steidl Books]

"Why France Fell." Photographs by Lisette Model. PM's Weekly. 19 January, 1941, pp. 38–39.

Photography & the Press

Special Guest: Jason Hill

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[NHP] "Looking At Others: Humanism and Neo-realism."

[Myth] "Shock Photos" and "The Family of Man."

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Sontag, Susan. "Looking at War." The New Yorker, December 9, 2002.

Lavoie, Vincent. "War and the iPhone: New Fronts for Photojournalism." Translated by John Tittensor. Etudes Photographiques.

Snow, Lalage. "Kabul's Hidden Gardens Offer Afghans Haven From War," Financial Times, September 13, 2013.

"We Are Not The Dead: Soldiers' Faces Before, During and After Serving in Afghanistan," The Telegraph.

Photographing War

Special Guest: Lalage Snow

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Ma Pelette. "Sarah Moon is a Master of Photography." June 14, 2009. YouTube.

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[NHP] "The Dream of Beauty: Fashion and Fantasy."

[Myth] "Electoral Photography."

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Gunning, Tom. "Embarrassing Evidence: The Detective Camera and the Documentary Impulse." In Collecting Visible Evidence. University of Minnesota Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780816631360. [Preview with Google Books]

Laurent, Oliver. "Protecting Privacy, Limiting Street Photography," The New York Times, April 23, 2013.

Estrin, James. "Criminalizing Photography," The New York Times, August 14, 2012.

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Murray, Susan. "Digital Images, Photo-sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics." Journal of Visual Culture 7, no. 2 (2008): 147–63.