Photography 1 People and Place

Essential reading
Angier, Roswell. (2007)Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography, AVA Publishing SA Cotton, Charlotte. (2009) The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 2nd edition, Thames and Hudson Short, Martha. (2011) Basics Creative Photography 02: Context and Narrative, AVA Publishing David Levis Strauss, (2005) Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, Aperture Wells, Liz (ed). (2009) Photography: A Critical Introduction, 2nd edition, Routledge Caruana, Natashia and Fox, Anna (2012). Behind the Image: Research in Photography, AVA Publishing

Recommended further reading

Badger, G. (2011) The Genius of Photography. London: Quadrille Publishing. Dexter, Emma and Weski, Thomas (eds). (2003) Cruel and Tender: Photography and the Real, Tate Publishing Dyer, G., 2006. The ongoing moment. London: Abacus Jay, Bill and Hurn, David, (1997) On Being a Photographer (Kindle edition), LensWork Publishing Linfield, Susie. (2010) The Cruel Radiance, University of Chicago Press Rosler , Martha. (2006) 3 Works: 1. The Restoration of High Culture in Chile; 2. The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems; 3. in, around, and afterthoughts (on documentary photography) The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Shore, S. (2007) The Nature of Photographs: a Primer (2nd edition). London: Phaidon Press

Sontag, Susan. (1979) On Photography, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Szarkowski, J. (2007) The Photographers Eye. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. Wells, Liz. (2002) The Photography Reader, London: Routledge

Essential journals
British Journal of Photography, bjp-online.com Hotshoe, hotshoeinternational.com/home.do Photoworks, photoworksuk.org/publication/magazine/default Aperture, aperture.org/magazine

Essential websites
thefreemanview.com npg.org.uk/learning/digital/interviews-with-artists-and-sitters.php http://www.streetphoto.fsnet.co.uk/ http://www.street-photographers.com/ http://www.aperture.org/

Out of print books may be available from the following websites: www.amazon.co.uk or www.abebooks.com

You can also view and download some free out of print e-books from www.gutenberg.org and www.scribd.com

You should also consider buying, or borrowing from the public library, monographs of individual photographers whose work appeals to you. Close study of a limited number of photographers will repay the effort.

It may well be worthwhile approaching the librarian of your local FE college or university to see what arrangements, if any, they have for non-registered students to use their library. This is the current booklist for this course. Please note that as changes and updates to this list are made, these are placed on www.oca-student.com, so check your booklist for updates when you are on the website.