25 Photography Writings you should read

Surfing through the Photojojo webpage, I found a link to a web page written by a photo MFA Student, James Pomerantz. In his blog, he includes a list of 26 Photo Writings you should read. Going through the list, I found out that thanks to SCAD and, especially, Prof. Steve Aishman, I have read half of them. I'm way behind. So I've decided, as soon as my first Solo Show is over, I'll start to read each one of them... Here is the list:

Photo Writings

1. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, in “Illuminations” ed., Hannah Arendt2. Walter Benjamin, “The Author as Producer”, in “Reflections” ed., Hannah Arendt3. Roland Barthes, “The Rhetoric of the Image”, in “Image Music Text”4. Roland Barthes, “The Photographic Message”, in “Image Music Text”5. Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” in “Image Music Text”6. Roland Barthes, “Camera Lucida”7. Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulation”7. Susan Sontag, “On Photography”8. Susan Sontag “Regarding the Pain of Others”9. Vilem Flusser, “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”10. Michael Fried, “Art and Objecthood”11. Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias”12. Martha Rosler, “In, Around, and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography)” in “The Contest of Meaning”, ed., Richard Bolton13. Deborah Bright, “Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry Into the Culture Meanings of Landscape Photography”, in “The Contest of Meaning”, ed., Richard Bolton14. Allan Sekula, “The Body and the Archive” in “The Contest of Meaning”, ed., Richard Bolton (also in October, Winter 1986)15. Allan Sekula, “Reading an Archive” from “Blasted Allegories”, ed., Brian Wallis16. Christopher Phillips, “ The Judgment Seat of Photography” in “The Contest of Meaning”, ed., Richard Bolton17. Walter Benjamin, “A Short History of Photography”, in “Classic Essays on Photography”, ed., Alan Trachtenberg18. Andre Bazin, “The Ontology of the Photographic Image”, in “Classic Essays on Photography”, ed., Alan Trachtenberg19. Siegfried Kracauer, “Photography” in “Classic Essays on Photography”, ed., Alan Trachtenberg20. Hubert Damisch, “Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image” in “Classic Essays on Photography”, ed., Alan Trachtenberg21. Craig Owens, “Photography En Abyme”, in “Beyond Recognition”22. Craig Owens, “The Discourse of Others: Feminism and Postmodernism”, in “Beyond Recognition”23. Douglas Crimp, “Pictures” October, Volume 8, 1979, also in “Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation”, ed., Brian Wallis24. John Szarkowski, “Mirrors and Windows”25. Rosalind Krauss, “Notes on the Index: Part 1 and Part 2” in “The Originality of the Avant-Garde and other Modernist Myths”26. Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” in “Visual and Other Pleasures” Happy Sunday!