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Materials & Resources
Reading -
On Photography - Susan Sontag. 1977.
Photography In Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present - Vicki Goldberg, ed. 1981.
On Directing Film - David Mamet. 1991.
A New Instrument of Vision - Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. 1939.
Visual Thinking - Rudolf Arnheim. 1969.
The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art - David Perkins. 1994.
Seeing Is Believing - Vik Munoz. 1998.
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography - Roland Barthes. 1980.
The Nature of Photographs - Stephen Shore. 2010.
The Decisive Moment - Henri Cartier-Bresson. 1952.
Classic Essays on Photography - Allan Trachtenberg. 1980.
Art and Photography - Aaron Scharf. 1969.
The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories.John Tagg. 1988.
The Valiant Knights of Daguerre – Selected Critical Essays on Photography and Profiles of Photographic Pioneers - Sadakichi Hartmann. 1978
The Camera / The Negative / The Print / Polaroid Land Photography - Ansel Adams. 1980 / 1976 / 1983 / 1978
The History of Photojournalism - Robert Lebeck & Bodo Von Dewitz. Kiosk. 2001.
The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography- Richard Bolton. 1989.
Creative Photography - Helmut Gernsheim. 1962.
Handbook for Contemporary Photography - Arnold Gassan. 1977.
Color Photography - Henry Horenstein. 1995.
Beyond Basic Photography - Henry Horenstein. 1977.
Photography and the American Scene - Robert Taft. 1938.
Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation - Brian Wallis, ed. 1984.
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers - Deborah Willis. 2000.
The Photographic Art: Pictorial Traditions in Britain and America Mike Weaver. 1986.
Breaking the Rules - Bea Nettles. 1977.
Secrets of Lighting on Location - Bob Krist. 1996.
Darkroom - Eleanor Lewis, ed. 1977
The Craft of Photography - David Vestal. 1975.
Slightly Out of Focus - Robert Capa. 1947.
East 100th St. - Bruce Davidson. 1970
Photographs of Child Labor in the New South - Lewis Hine. 1986.
The Destruction of Lower Manhattan - Danny Lyon. 2005.
Select Photo Books -
American Prospects - Joel Sternfeld
Projects - Nikki S. Lee
Uncommon Places - Stephen Shore
American Surface - Stephen Shore
Survey - Stephen Shore
A Road Trip Journal - Stephen Shore
Where I find Myself - Joel Meyerowitz
Taking My Time - Joel Meyerowitz
William Eggleston's Guide - William Eggleston
2 1/4 - William Eggleston
Portraits - William Eggleston
Take Ivy - Teruyoshi Hayashida
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia - Philip-Lorca DiCorcia
Lee Friedlander - C. Gollonet J. Fraenkel M. Friedlander N. Nixon (2021 Retrospective)
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency - Nan Goldin
The Other Side - Nan Goldin
The Devil's Playground - Nan Goldin
Touching Strangers - Richard Renaldi
The Bike Riders - Danny Lyon
The Seventh Dog - Danny Lyon
Real Food - Martin Parr
Martin Parr - Martin Parr
Only Human - Martin Parr
Niagara - Alec Soth
The Animals - Garry Winogrand
Women are Beautiful - Garry Winogrand
Public Relations - Garry Winogrand
Winogrand 1964 - Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand - Garry Winogrand
Subway - Bruce Davidson
Brooklyn Gang - Bruce Davidson
Central Park - Bruce Davidson
In the Beginning - Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus - Diane Arbus
Palm Springs - Robert Doisneau
The Americans - Robert Frank
Additional Photographers of Note:
Todd Hido
Alex Prager
Diane Arbus
Cindy Sherman
Jeff Goldberg
Lee Friedlander
Berenice Abbott
Walker Evans
Weegee
Carrie Mae Weems
Danielle Levitt
Gordon Parks
Sally Mann
Jeff Wall
Adrienne Salinger
Richard Renaldi
James Vander Zee
Andreas Gursky
Man Ray
This non-exhaustive list evolves and updates as I read and learn more.
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