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INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA STUDIES
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- PHOTOGRAPHY: BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- * = recommended introductory reading
- Photography and modernity class page
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THEORY
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- Barthes, Roland
- Mythologies (Paris, 1957)
- * La Chambre claire: note sur la photographie (Paris,
1980). Trans: Camera Lucida
- "Le Message photographique", in L'Obvie et l'Obtus. Essais
critiques III (Paris, 1982), 9-24
- "Rhétorique de l'image", in L'Obvie et L'Obtus,
25-42
- "Sur la photographie", in Le Grain de la voix. Entretiens
1962-80 (Paris, 1981), 328-34
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- Benjamin, Walter
- * "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction",
in Illuminations (New York, 1969), 217-51
- * "A Short History of Photography", Screen,
13, no. 1 (1972)
- "The Author as Producer", in V. Burgin, ed., Thinking
Photography, 15-31
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- Berger, John
- * Ways of Seeing (London: Penguin, 1972)
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- Burgin, Victor
- "Introduction", in V. Burgin, ed., Thinking Photography,
1-14
- "Photographic Practice and Art Theory", in V. Burgin, ed.,
Thinking Photography, 39-83
- "Looking at Photographs", in V. Burgin, ed., Thinking
Photography, 142-53
- "Photography, Phantasy, Function", in V. Burgin, ed., Thinking
Photography, 177-216
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- Burgin, Victor, ed.
- * Thinking Photography (London: Macmillan, Communications
and Culture, 1982)
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- Eco, Umberto
- "Critique of the Image", in V. Burgin, ed., Thinking Photography,
32-8
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- Freund, Gisèle
- Photographie et société (Paris, 1974). Trans:
Photography and Society (Boston, 1980)
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- Schaeffer, Jean-Marie
- L'Image précaire: du dispositif photographique (Paris:
Seuil, 1987) [also includes comprehensive bibliography]
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- Scharf, Aaron
- * Art and Photography (London: Penguin, 1968)
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- Sekula, Alan
- "On the Invention of Photographic Meaning", in V. Burgin,
ed., Thinking Photography, 84-109
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- Solomon-Godeau, Abigail
- "Photography after Art Photography", in B. Wallis, ed., Art
After Modernism: Rethinking Representation (1984), 75-85
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- Sontag, Susan
- * On Photography (New York, 1973)
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- Tagg, John
- "The Currency of the Photograph", in V. Burgin, ed., Thinking
Photography, 110-41
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- Watney, Simon
- "Making Strange: the Shattered Mirror", in V. Burgin, ed.,
Thinking Photography, 154-76
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LITERATURE
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- Breton, André
- Nadja (Paris, 1927)
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- Calvino, Italo
- "The Adventure of a Photographer", in Difficult Loves,
translated by William Weaver et al. (New York, 1984), 220-35
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- Cortázar, Julio
- * "Las Babas del Diablo", in Julio Cortázar:
Los Relatos, III. Pasajes (Madrid, 1985), 205-19. Trans: Blow-up
and Other Stories
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- Tournier, Michel
- Le Roi des Aulnes (Paris: Gallimard, 1970)
- * "Les Suaires de Véronique", in Le Coq
de bruyère (Paris: Gallimard [Folio 1229], 1978), 151-72. Trans.:
The Fetishist
- Des Clefs et des Serrures: images et proses (Paris: Chêne/Hachette,
1979)
- La Goutte d'or (Paris: Gallimard, 1986)
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