Photo Criticism & History

Photo Criticism & Theoretical

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Hill & Wang, New York. Translation 1981.
---. La chamber Claire: Notes sur la photographie. Cahiers du cinema & Gallimard Seuil 1980.
---. Mythologies. Hill and Wang 1972.

*Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others. Picador 2003.
---. On Photography. FS&G 1977.
* ---. On Photography. Anchor Books 1990.

Carrie Mae Weems, The Hampton Project, Aperture 2000.

Sander L. Gilman, Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS. Cornell University Press, 1988.

Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. MIT Press, 1992.

Beaumont Newhall, Photography: Essays & Images, Illustrated Readings in the History of Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, 1980.

Henry Louis Gates, Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the ‘Racial’ Self. Oxford UP, 1987.

Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol, Second Edition University of Chicago Press (1965) republished 1979.


African American Cultural Theory & History (Background to Photographic History)
*W.E.B. Du Bois, The Illustrated Souls of Black Folk, (1903), edited by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. Paradigm Publishers 2005.
W.E.B. Du Bois on Asia: Crossing the World Color Line. Edited by Bill V. Mullen and Cathryn Watson, University Press of Mississippi 2005.
Pierre Hauser, Great Ambitions: From the “Separate But equal” Doctrine to the Birth of the NAACP (1896-1909). Chelsea House Publishers, 1995

----. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1899.
---. The Souls of Black Folk, 1903.
---. Quest of the Silver Fleece, 1911.
---. Darkwater: Voices Within the Veil, 1920.
---. Dark Princess: A Romance. Harcourt Brace reprint 1928.
---. Black Reconstruction in America, 1935.
---. The Black Flame Trilogy: Part I: The Ordeal of Mansart 1957.
• Part II: Mansart Builds a School, 1959.
• The Black Flame Trilogy: Part III: Worlds of Color 1961.
The Best of the Brownies’ Book edited by Dianne Johnson Feelings. The Opie Library/Oxford UP 1996.
David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. Henry Holt 2003.

World’s Fairs:
*Christopher Robert Reed, All the World is Here! The Black Presence at White City. Indiana UP 2000.
Robert Rydell, All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. University of Chicago Press 1984.

Jim Crow:
Richard Wormser, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. St. Martin’s Press 2003.
Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biography. Geoffrey Ward et al. Knopf 2001.
Dora Apel, Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, Black Women, and the Mob. Rutgers UP 2004.
Christopher Metress, The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative, 2002.

FSA/Depression:
Paul Dickson and Thomas Allen, The Bonus Army: An American Epic. Walker 2004.

Chicago:
St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, Black Metropolis
Timuel D. Black Jr., Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration. Northwestern University Press and Dusable Museum of African American History, 2003.

Visual Culture:
Jacob Lawrence, Migration Series, MOMA Collection 1935.

Miscellaneous Projects:
*Donald Alexander Downs, Cornell 69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University. Cornell UP 1999.
The Routledge Atlas of African American History. Jonathan Earle, Routledge 2000.