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Criticism and essays
Twins
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David Fields(Photographer), et al / Running Pr / November
1998
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On
Photography
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Susan Sontag / Anchor Books / August 1990
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A
World History of Photography
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Naomi Rosenblum / Abbeville Press, Inc. / February 1997
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Criticizing
Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images
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Terry Barrett / Mayfield Publishing Company / March 1996
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The
Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand (Photographer), et al / Fraenkel Gallery
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Two
Times Intro: On the Road With Patti Smith
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Michael Stipe / Little Brown & Company / April 1998
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The
Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire
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Deborah Bright(Editor) / Routledge / October 1998
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The
Photograph (Oxford History of Art)
(Recommended)
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Graham Clarke / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / May 1997
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Chautauqua:
An American Utopia
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Jeffrey Simpson, Paul Solomon (Photographer) / Harry N
Abrams (Pap) / June 1999
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The
Digital Evolution:
Visual Communication in the Electronic Age:
Essays, Lectures and Interviews 1967-1998
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A. D. Coleman / Nazraeli Press / November 1998
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The
Nature of Photographs
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Stephen Shore, James L. Enyeart / Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
/ March 1998
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Diana
and Nikon: Essays on Photography
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Janet Malcolm / Aperture / September 1997
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Sacred
Mountains of the World
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Edwin Bernbaum / Univ California Press / May 1998
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Bystander
A History of Street Photography
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Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz / Bulfinch Pr / November
1994
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How
to Look at Photographs: Reflections on the Art of Seeing
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David Finn / Harry N Abrams (Pap) / May 1994
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Let
Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith His Life and Photographs
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Eugene W. Smith, et al / Aperture / September 1998
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Fast
Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood
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Lauren Greenfield(Photographer), et al / Knopf / January
1998
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New
York: An Illustrated History of the People
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Allon Schoener / W W Norton & Co / May 1998
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Depth
of Field: Essays on Photographs, Lens Culture and Mass Media
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A. D. Coleman / University of New Mexico Press / October
1998
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The
Hidden Canyon: A River Journey
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John Blaustein, Edward Abbey / Chronicle Books / May 1999
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After
the Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955
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Christian A. Peterson / W W Norton & Co / May 1997
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The
Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era
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William J. Mitchell / MIT Press / September 1994
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American
Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present
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Jonathan Green / Harry N Abrams / April 1984
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Words
of Light: Theses on the Photography of History
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Eduardo Cadava / Princeton Univ Pr / September 1998
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An
Uncertain Grace: Essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin
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Sebastiao Salgado(Photographer), et al / Aperture / October
1997
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The
Beauty Box: A Tribute to the Legendary Beauty Parlors of the South
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Kathy Kemp, Karim Shamsi-Basha (Photographer) / Crane Hill
Pub / November 1998
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The
Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography
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Richard Bolton(Editor) / Mit Pr / April 1992
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A
World History of Photography
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Naomi Rosenblum / Abbeville Press, Inc. / February 1997
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The
Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories
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John Tagg / Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) / September 1993
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Critical
Focus: Photography in the International Image Community
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A. D. Coleman / Nazraeli Press / August 1996
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Art
and Landscape in Charleston and the Low Country: A Project of
Spoleto Festival USA
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John Beardsley(Editor), et al / Spacemaker Press / April
1998
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Photography's
Multiple Roles
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, et al / Museum of Contemporary
Photography / November 1998
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Looking
at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms
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Gordon Baldwin / J Paul Getty Museum Pubns / December 1991
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Burning
With Desire: The Conception of Photography
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Geoffrey Batchen / MIT Press / September 1997
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Light
Readings: A Photography Critic's Writings 1968-1978
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A. D. Coleman, Shelley Rice (Introduction) / University
of New Mexico Press / September 1998
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McDermott
& McGough: A History of Photography
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David McDermott, et al / Arena Editions / April 1998
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Icons
of Photography: The 20th Century
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Peter Stepan(Editor), Peter Stedan (Editor) / International
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Burg
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Wolfgang Tillmans(Photographer), David Deitcher / TASCHEN
America Llc / October 1998
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Hover
: Artist monographs with fiction
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Gregory Crewdson(Photographer), et al / Artspace Books
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Trespassing
Through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust (Visible
Evidence Series , Vol 3)
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Andrea Liss / Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) / August 1998
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Why
People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
(Highly recommended)
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Robert Adams / Aperture / December 1994
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The
New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963
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Jane Livingston, et al / Stewart Tabori & Chang / November
1992
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The
Image in Dispute: Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography
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James Dudley Andrew(Editor), et al / Univ of Texas Pr /
June 1997
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Defining
Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century: Organized by the
Saint Louis Art Museum
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Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, et al / Distributed Art Publishers
/ November 1998
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The
Engine of Visualization: Thinking Through Photography
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Patrick Maynard / Cornell Univ Pr / December 1997
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Photographers
on Photographers (Aperture Vol 151)
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Helen Levitt, et al / Aperture / May 1998
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Living
on a Dream: A Marriage Tale
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Patt Blue / Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) / August 1998
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Illuminations
: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present
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Liz Heron(Editor), et al / Duke Univ Pr (Trd) / October
1996
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Burning
With Desire: The Conception of Photography
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Geoffrey Batchen / MIT Press / March 1999
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San
Xavier: The Spirit Endures
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Kathleen Walker, Kateri Weiss (Illustrator) / Arizona Highways
/ May 1998
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American
Photography 1890-1965: From the Museum of Modern Art New York
(Highly recommended)
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Peter Galassi, Luc Sante / Museum of Modern Art / September
1995
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Intersections
: Lithography, Photography, and the Traditions of Printmaking
(Tamarind Papers, Vol. 17)
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Kathleen Stewart Howe(Editor), Kathleen Stewart-Howe /
University of New Mexico Press / March 1998
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Surfers
: Photographs
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Patrick Cariou(Photographer), et al / Power House Cultural
Entertainment / December 1998
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Richard
Kern
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Demetrio Paparoni, Richard Kern (Photographer) / Charta
/ February 1999
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Marianne
Muller a Part of My Life: Photographs
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Marianne Muller / Scalo Verlag Ac / August 1998
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The
Promise of Photography: The Dg Bank Collection
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Luminita Sabau(Editor), Iris Cramer (Editor) / International
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Timeframes:
The Story of Photography
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Ian Jeffrey / Watson-Guptill Pubns / October 1998
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Photo
Text Text Photo: The Synthesis of Photography and Text in Contemporary
Art
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Andreas Hapkemeyer(Editor), Peter Weiermair (Editor) /
Edition Stemmle / January 1997
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Playing
With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe
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Arthur Coleman Danto / Univ California Press / October
1995
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A
Concise History of Photography
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Helmut Gernsheim / Dover Pubns / October 1986
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Mind's
Eye, Mind's Truth: Fsa Photography Reconsidered (American Civilization
Series)
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James Curtis / Temple Univ Press / February 1992
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Virtual
Anxiety: Photography, New Technologies and Subjectivity (The Critical
Image)
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Sarah Kember / Manchester Univ Pr / October 1998
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Photographic
Notes: Everything Is Important - Nothing Is Important
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Christian Vogt(Illustrator), Dick Joyce (Introduction)
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Words
of Light: Theses on the Photography of History
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Eduardo Cadava / Princeton Univ Pr / February 1997
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Celebrating
the Negative
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John Loengard / Arcade Pub / October 1994
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The
Scenic Daguerreotype: Romanticism and Early Photography
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John Wood, John R. Stilgoe / Univ of Iowa Pr / October
1995
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The
Politics of Focus: Women, Children and Nineteenth-Century Photography
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Lindsay Smith / Manchester Univ Pr / October 1998
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Framing
the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism
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Jennifer Green-Lewis / Cornell Univ Pr / January 1997
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Trace
and Transformation: American Criticism of Photography in the Modernist
Period
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Joel Eisinger / University of New Mexico Press / January
1999
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