Papers on the Theory and Philosophy of Photography
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Barthes
On Barthes
Sontag
Benjamin
Compare and Contrast
Stephens – On the Reception of Photography:
Australian Writers on Photography
Marsh – A Surrealist Impulse in Contemporary Australian Photography
Theory, History and/or Philosophy
Photography and the paradigm of trace
Material image surface and substance
The Camera/Photography Club
Amateur photography and the pictorial aesthetic
Aesthetics and Photography
Snapshot Aesthetics and the Strategic Imagination
Historical
Coburn – Pictorial Photography
Maimon- On the singularity of early photography
Kammeier – Changing nature of the photogram
Movements & Schools
Xepoleas – Recapturing the Surreal in Fashion Photography of the 1930s
Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War
Theory and Practice
Theory
Elkins – What photography is Part 1
Practice against Theory
Resources