reading list

history/criticism/themes/

history

The Photobook: A History Vol 1 & 2, by Martin Parr and Gary Badger

Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s, Ryuichi Kaneko, Ivan Vartanian

Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present: A Different History of Photography, by Peterr Pfunder, Ftostifung Schweiz

The Dutch Photobook: A Thematic Exploration from 1945 Onwards, by Frits Gierstberg, Rik Suermondt

The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton

tableau/staged/constructed/theatrical/performance photography

Haunted:Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, (New York : Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2010)

criticism

The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield

periodicals

Colors

Foam

on being a photographer/artist

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees : A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin, by Lawrence Weschler

W. Eugene Smith: Shadow and Substance –  The Life and Work of an American Photographer by Jim Hughs

Diane Arbus Revelations by Diane Arbus

Image Makers, Image Takers by Anne-Celine Jaeger

Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans Expanded Edition by Sarah Greenough and Robert Fran

Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton

Hensche On Painting by John W. Robichaux

The Day Books of Edward Weston by Edward Weston

David Hockney On Photography by David Hockney