Curated Papers, Essays and Lectures on Photography

You will find on this page a list of curated Papers, Essays and Lectures concerning Photography and Contemporary Art.

Curated Lectures

Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University: What is Photography?, 2019.

How cameras work, and how to take good pictures using them, by Marc Levoy (Standford)

Exposing Digital Photography, by Dan Armendariz (Harvard).

Photography as Inquiry, Anne Whiston Spirn (MIT).

Curated Papers on Photography

ALLAIN Monique, The codified World, 2009.

ARRIBERT-NARCE Fabien, Roland Barthes’s Photobiographies, Towards an Exception from Meaning, 2009.

BALL et al., Opening Up the Indexicality of the Image, Again, 2020.

BLASCHKE Estelle, From the Picture Archive to the Image Bank, Commercializing the Visual through Photography. The Bettmann Archive and Corbis, 2009.

BRUNET François, Robert Taft in Beaumont Newhall’s Shadow, A Difficult Dialogue between Two American Histories of Photography, 2012.

CARRILLO CANAN Alberto J. L. and CALEDERON ZACAULA Marco, Bazin, Flusser and the Aesthetics of Photography, 2012.

CHALLINE Eléonore, Photography and Memory, The Commemoration of Photography in France, 1880-1940, 2010.

CHONG Ho Yu, Aesthetics of photography: Combining the viewer’s and the artist’s standpoints, 2004.

DATTA Ritendra, JOSHI Dhiraj, LI Jia and WANG James Z., Studing Aesthetics in Photographic Images Using a Computational Approach, 2006.

DIACK Heather, Facts of Matter On the Malleability of Photographic Form, 2015.

DROTH Martina and MESSIER Paul, with photography by CASPOLE RIchard and HIXON Robert, Bill Brandt: Photography and the Printed Page, 2020.

DROTH Martina (introd. by), Conference Proceedings: Photography and Britishness, 2016.

DYCE Matt, Photography as Theory in Action, 2016.

ELKINS James, What Photography Is, 2012.

FERRETTI-THEILING Madeline, Rethinking Photography: A Historical Perspective, 2021.

FLUSSER Vilém, The Power of Images.

FLUSSER Vilém, FAROCKI Harun, Programming the Visible.

GUNTHERT André, The consecration of the selfie, 2015.

GUNTHERT André, The conversational image, 2014.

HACKETT Sophie, Beaumont Newhall and a Machine, Exhibition Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in 1937, 2009.

FROSH Paul, The Gestural Image: The Selfie, Photography Theory, And Kinesthetic Sociability, 2015.

HILL Anna and DENMAN Lamaja, Adolescent Self Esteem and Instagram: An Examination of Posting Behaviours, 2019.

LEVY Lior, The question of Photographic Meaning in Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, 2009.

NEAD Lynda and WYVER John, Bert Hardy: Excercises with Photography and Film, 2020.

PANDILOVSKI Melentie, What lies behind modern technology.

PARKMANN Fedora, A Czechoslovak Variation of Fifo, The International Photography Exhibition (Prague, 1936), 2012.

PARSONS Sarah, Women in Fur: Empire, Power, and Play in a Victorian Photography Album, 2020.

PERAICA Ana, Culture of the Selfie, 2017.

POIVERT Michel, Degenerate Photography? French Pictorialism and the Aesthetics of Optical Aberration, 2009.

PURCELL Sebastian L., Phenomenology of a Photograph, Or: How to use an Eidetic Phenomenology, 2010.

RAY Larry, Social Theory, Photography and the Visual Aesthetic of Cultural Modernity, 2020.

SHANKS Michael, SVABO Connie, Mobile media photography new modes of engagement, 2014.

SOUZA ARAUJO Camila, It is Not Just a Picure: Revealing Some User Practices in Instagram, 2014.

TAGG John (coord. by), Exit Theory: Thinking Photography and Thinking History from One Crisis to Another, 2016.

TIFENTALE Alise, Art of the Masses: From Kodak Brownie to Instagram, 2015.

VILARO Arnau, The eco of Barthes’ photography. The new lucid camera: Notes about digital camera, 2011.

WITKOVSKY Matthew, Circa 1930, Art History and the New Photography, 2009.

ZAMIR Shamoon, Sructures of Rhyme, Forms of Participation, The Family of Man as Exhibition, 2018.

ZERVIGON Andrés Mario, The Wiederaufbau of Perception, 2012.

Curated Essays

BARTHES Roland, Camera Lucida, 1981.

BENJAMIN Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1935.

ELKINS James, Photography Theory, 2007.

EMERLING Jae, Photography, History and Theory, 2012.

FLUSSER Vilém, Towards a philosophy of photography, 1983 (english version).

FLUSSER Vilém, Into the universe of Technical Images, 2011.

HELFF Sissy, MICHELS Stefaine, Global Photographies: Memory – History – Archives, 2018.

KRAUSS Rosalind, Notes on the Index: Seventies Art in America, 1977.

KRAUSS Rosalind, Photography’s Discursive Spaces: Landscape/View, 1982.

MANOVICH Lev, Instagram and Contemporary Photography, 2015-2016.

SMITH S. Michelle and SLIWINSKI Sharon (editors), Photography and the Optical Unconscious, 2017.

SONTAG Susan, On Photography, 1973.

VAN GELDER Hilde and WESTGEEST Helen, Photography Theory, in historical perspective, 2011.

WELLS Liz (edited by), Photography, a critical introduction, 2015.