photography must-reads! - Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Charlotte Cotton

Texts/Materials mentioned in the video:
1. John Berger 'Ways of Seeing' (1972)
2. Susan Sontag 'On Photography' (1977)
3. Roland Barthes 'Camera Lucida' (1980)
4. Charlotte Cotton 'The Photograph as Contemporary Art' (2020 edition)
5. Bettina Lockemann 'Thinking the Photobook: A Practical Guide' (2022)
6. Walter Benjamin 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1935)
7. Villem Flusser 'Towards a Philosophy of Photography' (1984)
SUPER opened to all your recommendations in the comments below!
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[@CaesarSebastian]

Great picks. Also Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews. and Paul Graham: Photographs 1981-2006.

[@ColtonMatocha]

Love this! Thank you for sharing

[@Georgette_Swenson]

I read Barthes and Sontag in art school. I will look into some of the books you've suggested.

[@donnelson4140]

Berger opened my eyes and mind to concepts that later were obvious. Sontag infuriated, but also drove introspection. Flusser was unreadable. The others are either new to me, or published after I left photography. Additions I think should be on your list are “The Daybooks of Edward Weston,” which assures the modern photographer that things haven’t changed all that much, and “Art and Fear” by Bayles and Ormand, which addresses the universal difficulties that artists share, and how to persevere.

[@Wakodahatch]

Common interests. Stephen Shore, Sebastiao Salgado. Thanks for sharing!

[@nflhighlight01]

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[@ecsays]

Great video! Thanks for introducing Villem Flusser, I was not aware of him! WIll have to check him out. FYI I have an MFA in photography and of course, quite familiar with all of the other books and authors you mentioned. As for recommendations, have you read anything by Jeff Wall for instance: Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews.
P.S. John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is also a quirky BBC series where he speaks on camera. I think the series came before the book but don't quote me on that.

[@thimonk1]

Looking at Photographs - John Szarkowski (MOMA)