The photography reader

Extracts from Camera Lucida / Roland Barthes

What has occurred only once : Barthes's Winter garden/Boltanski's archives of the dead / Marjorie Perloff

Extracts from The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin

Benjamin and the political economy of the photograph / W.J.T. Mitchell

Photography within the humanities / Susan Sontag

In our image / Wright Morris

Fire and ice / Peter Wollen

Five notes for a phenomenology of the photographic image / Hubert Damisch

What the eye does not see / Ossip Brik

A new instrument of vision / László Moholy-Nagy

Introduction to the photographer's eye / John Szarkowski

Seeing photographically / Edward Weston

Rhetoric of the image / Roland Barthes

A photograph / Umberto Eco

Looking at photographs / Victor Burgin

Photography and fetish / Christian Metz

Winning the game when the rules have been changed : art photography and postmodernism / Abigail Solomon-Godeau

The crisis of the real : photography and postmodernism / Andy Grundberg

Snapshooters of history : passages on the postmodern argument / Steve Edwards

'The shadow of the object' : photography and realism / Sarah Kember

Extracts from Introduction to the photographic image in digital culture / Martin Lister

Photogenics / Geoffrey Batchen

The paradoxes of digital photography / Lev Manovich

Evidence, truth and order : photographic records and the growth of the state / John Tagg

In, around and afterthoughts (on documentary photography) / Martha Rosler

Access and consent in public photography / Lisa Henderson

Photographs of agony / John Berger

Photojournalism and the tabloid press / Karin E. Becker

Cuba made me so / Edmundo Desnoes

Re-reading Edward Weston : feminism, photography and psychoanalysis

Cindy Sherman : bruning down the house / Jan Avgikos

Doubletake : the diary of a relationship with an image / Lucy R. Lippard

The photograph as an intersection of gazes, the example of national geographic / Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins

The vertigo of displacement / David A. Bailey and stuart Hall

In our glory : photography and black life / bell hooks

Rememberance : the child I never was / Annette Kuhn

Photo-therapy : psychic realism as a healing art? / Rosy Martin and Jo Spence

Self image : personal is political / Angela Kelly

The museum's old, the library's new subject / Douglas Crimp

Words and pictures : on reviewing photography / Liz Wells

Art, education, photography / David Bate

Reading an archive : photography between labour and capital.