Aesthetic Consumerism and the Violence of Photography:

What Susan Sontag Teaches Us about Visual Culture and the Social Web

By Maria Popova

 

 

Contemporary Photographic Criticism

 

 

The Quest for Good Photographs and How the Brain Perceives Images

By Michael Reichmann

 

 

The True, the Beautiful, and the Good: Reconsiderations in a Postmodern, Digital Era

MoMA

 

Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before -Michael Fried (2009)

Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture

 By Mika Elo

 

 

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History of Photography Timeline

By Philip Greenspun.

 

 

Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Vilem Flusser

(PDF)

 

 

 

Ariella Azoulay - On her book The Civil Contract of Photography

 

 

Criticising Photographs

A guide to undstanding images

by Terry Barrett

(this is scans of the book as PDF)

 

 

Postmodernism

By Art Gallery of NSW Education Department

 

 

Postmodernism in Photography

By Dr. Jeanne S. M. Willette and Art History Unstuffed

 

 

 

Art in the Age of Biocybernetics

By WJT Mitchell

 

 

 

The Curated Ego: What makes a good selfie

The Photographic Universe | The Life and Death of Images with Lynne Tillman and Eduardo Cadava

Art Movements Through Photography

By Ellen Rafferty

History of Photography

The Photographic Universe | The Ontology of Photographic Seeing with Todd Cronan and Simon Critchley

 Photography Interpretations

By Brian Forbes

 Photography Interpretations

By Brian Forbes