Recommended Technical Texts:
Photoshop CS5,6 for Windows and Macintosh, Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, Peachpit Press 2010, www.peachpit.com
The Photoshop CS5,6 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby, New Riders Publishing, 2010, www.scottkelbybooks.com
Alternate Technical Texts:
Photography, Barbara London, John Upton, Ken Kobre, Betsy Brill, Prentice Hall
Photography, Revised Edition, Henry Horenstein, Russell Hart Prentice Hall
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Academic / Theoretical
By Rebecca Solnit
Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (City Lights Books, 1990)
Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Landscape Wars of the American West (Sierra Club Books, 1994)
A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland (Verso, 1997)
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Viking, 2000)
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Viking, 2003), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and of the Mark
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Penguin, 2005)With Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe,
Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers (Trinity University Press, 2005)
After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (University of California Press, 2006) co-authored by Philip L. Fradkin, Mark Klett, and Michael Lundgren
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (University of California Press, 2007
)"News from Nowhere: Iceland's Polite Dystopia". Harper's Magazine. October 2008.
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster (Viking, 2009)
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle (AK Press, 2009) co-authored by David Solnit
A California Bestiary (Heyday Books, 2010), with illustrations by Mona Caron
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (University of California Press, 2010)The Faraway Nearby (Viking Adult, 2013)
By Michael Lesy:
Visible Light, Four Creative Biographies, Michael Lesy, Times Books, 1985
Wisconsin Death Trip, Michael Lesy, ?,?
By Susan Sontag
On Photography, 1973, Picador.
By John Berger
Another Way of Telling, 1982, Vintage Books
The Sense of Sight, 1985, Vintage Books
Ways of Seeing, 1972. BBC & Penguin Books
By James Elkins
The Object Stares Back: on the nature of seeing, 1996, Simon and Schuster
Visual Studies, A Skeptical Introduction, 2003, Routledge
By Roland Barthes
Camera Lucida, 1981, Hill and Wang
Image, Music, Text, 1977, Noonday Press
Towards a Philosophy of Photography, Vilem Flusser
Photography: A Critical Introduction, Edited by Liz Wells, 1997, Routledge
Photography in Print, Edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1981, University of New Mexico Press
Criticizing Photographs, An Introduction to Understanding Images, Terry Barrett, 2006, McGraw-Hill
Crisis of the Real, Writings on Photography since 1974, Andy Grundberg, Aperture, 1999
River of Shadows, Eadweard Mybridge and the Technological Wild West, Rebecca Solnit, Penguin Group, 2003
Painting, Photography, Film, Moholy-Nagy, 1987, MIT Press
The Ongoing Moment, Geoff Dryer, 2005, Vintage Books