Readings for February 20 class
February 12th, 2009I’m teaching a history of contemporary photography course this semester at the College of Santa Fe. Thus far we have read, in its entirety and out loud in class, The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore. It’s one of those books that lays a foundation for a semester (if not a lifetime) of discussion about photographs and how they operate on and within us—and likewise, how we, mentally, operate on them.
This post is primarily for my students (but anyone can follow along).
Readings for our Friday, February 20th class include the following (to be found on the web):
* Two reviews of the Lee Friedlander retrospective held at the Museum of Modern Art in 2005. Review 1 is here and review 2 is here.
* The text of the essay to William Eggleston’s Guide, by John Szarkowski. A selection of Eggleston’s images from that body of work can be found here.
* The text of the interview I conducted with Stephen Shore last Spring, which can be found here (on this blog).
Some photographs by Lee Friedlander from that exhibition:
Some photographs by William Eggleston from his MoMA show:
Photography: A Very Short Introduction
Words Without Pictures (Aperture, 2010)
Short Track, by Jake Mendel
Bird Watching, by Paula McCartney