possible texts of interest
Of interest to those interested in visual culture go to:
The Medium is the Massage. An Inventory of Effects
by cultural theorist, Marshall McLuhan and visual designer, Quentin Fiore
Camera Lucida: Reflections of Photography
by Roland Barthes, post structuralist philosophy + cultural theorist
Free PDF available
Above, an illustration of the 1807 Camera Lucida as a drawing tool invented by Sir William Hyde Wollaston, bringing life drawing to a whole new level.
by Nancy Spector & Jennifer Blessing
Synopsis: The Guggenheim's classic study of photo-based artworks that question gender identity is back in print at last. This important volume, whose title combines Gertrude Stein's famous motto, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," with the name of Marcel Duchamp's feminine alter ego, Rrose Selavy, features portraits, self-portraits and photomontages in which the gender of the subject is highlighted through performance for the camera or through technical manipulation of the image. In many of the works, photography's strong aura of realism and objectivity promotes a fantasy of total gender transformation. In other pieces, the photographic representation articulates an incongruity between the posing body and its assumed costume. Features work by Cecil Beaton, Brassa‘, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hàch, Man Ray, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Inez van Lamsweerde and Andy Warhol
by
Peter Hamilton & Roger Hargreaves
Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory, and Identity - #1st edition
(International Library of Sociology) by Celia Lury ISBN-13: 978-0415102940 ISBN-10: 0415102944
In regards to the "truth" in photography; the photographer's perspective; the viewer's interpretation; what makes a photograph authentic, etc.
A facsimile of the one of the most influential unpublished works in the history of psychology by C.G. Jung. His writings and visual imagery between 1914 and 1930.
John Dewey Art as Experience
available as a free PDF download.
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The Philosophies of Immanuel Kant . Vol 1
