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You should become aware of the different aspects of the aesthetics of photography, of stylistic trends, and of the different technical approaches possible. An understanding of the historical implications as well as the current photographic context is a necessary prerequisite to knowledgeable evaluation and a disciplined criticism. A list of photographers important to the medium and a bibliography of both technical and aesthetic source material follows: Photographers: This is far from a complete list; many other photographers will be covered in lectures. You should acquaint yourself with the work of the following:

Ansel Adams Diane Arbus Richard Avedon Eugene Atget Anna Atkins Margaret Bourke-White Matthew Brady Brassai Harry Callahan Julia Margaret Cameron Henri Cartier-Bresson Imogen Cunningham Daguerre Judy Dater Bruce Davidson William Eggleston Walker Evans Harold Edgerton Robert Frank Lee Friedlander Ralph Gibson Hannah Hoch William Henry Jackson Francis Benjamin Johnson Gertrude Kasebier Barbara Kasten Andre Kertesz Barbara Kruger David LaChapelle Dorothea Lange Henri Jacques Lartigue Danny Lyon Manual Mary Ellen Mark Pedro Meyer Duane Michaels Richard Misrach Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Mariko Mori Yasusama Morimura Vik Muniz Eadweard Muybridge John Pfahl Man Ray Oscar Rejlander Henry Peach Robinson Martha Rosler Thomas Ruff Sebastiao Salgado August Sander Cindy Sherman Stephen Shore Lorna Simpson

• W. Eugene Smith

Frederick Sommer Edward Stiechen Alfred Stieglitz Paul Strand Thomas Struth Sugimoto Henry Fox Talbot Jerry Uelsmann Jeff Wall

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Nan Goldin Emmet Gowin Jan Groover John Heartfield Lewis Hine James Natchwey Bea Nettles Nicephore Niepce Timothy O'Sullivan Olivia Parker Alex Webb Carrie Mae Weems Edward Weston Clarence White Minor White Gary Winogrand

A list of books and periodicals that will be helpful: Periodicals, Quarterlies, Annuals Aperture Afterimage Art in America Artforum Exposure Art Papers History of Photography Blind Spot Doubletake Photography Quarterly Leonardo Shutterbug Books: The History of Photography Beaumont Newhall A World History of Photography Naomi Rosenblum A Concise History of Photography Helmut & Alison Gernsheim Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946 Andy Grundberg and Kathleen McCarthy Gauss The Painter and the Photograph Van Deren Coke One Hundred Years of Photographic History edited by Van Deren Coke American Photography Jonathan Green Photographers on Photography Nathan Lyons Looking at Photographs John Szarkowski The Photographer's Eye John Szarkowski Mirrors and Windows John Szarkowski Daybooks of Edward Weston edited by Nancy Newhall Black Photographers, 1840-1940: A Bio-Bibliography Deborah Willis-Thomas The Snapshot Jonathan Green L'Amour fou, Photography and Surrealism Rosalind Krauss, Jane Livingston, Dawn Ades Photomontage Dawn Ades On Photography Susan Sontag Camera Lucida Roland Barthes

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Image, Music, Text Roland Barthes Mythologies Roland Barthes Light Readings A.D. Coleman Thinking Photography Victor Burgin Between Victor Burgin The End of Art Theory Victor Burgin The Burden of Representation John Tagg Photography and Society Gisele Freund Ways of Seeing John Berger About Looking John Berger Photography in Print Vicki Goldberg The Power of the Photograph Vicki Goldberg Classic Essays on Photography Alan Tractenberg The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography Carol Squiers The Contest of Meaning, Richard Bolton The Body and the Lens John Pultz Photography Against the Grain Alan Sekula Burning with Desire Gregory Batchen Photography at the Dock Abigail Solomon-Godeau Metamorphoses: Photography in the modern age Aperture Fabrications: Staged, Altered and Appropriate Photographs Anne Hoy Montage and Modern Life : 1919-1942 , Matthew Teitelbaum ed. On the Line: the New Color Photojournalism Adam Weinberg Documentary Photography Arthur Rothstein A History of Women Photographers Naomi Rosenblum A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation Ann Goldstein Textbooks: Exploring Color Photography Robert Hirsch Photography London and Upton Photography Phil Davis Photography Bruce Warren Photographing in the Studio Gary Kolb Photographic Materials and Processes Leslie Stroebel Beyond Basic Photography Henry Horenstein The Keepers of Light William Crawford The New Zone System Manual Minor White Breaking the Rules: A Photo Media Cookbook Bea Nettles