Readings
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (pg. 1-11)
- Why I Write, Joan Didion
- Will It Be a Likeness, John Berger
- An Aperture Monograph, Diane Arbus
- Citizens of the Twentieth Century, August Sander
- Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
- The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, Martha Rosler
- Visual Pleasure & Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey
- The Complete Untitled Film Stills, Cindy Sherman
- A Breath of Life, Clarice Lispector (pg. 12-16)
- A hundred summers, A hundred winters, Bertien van Manen (books>view photos)
- Let’s sit down before we go, Bertien van Manen (books>view photos)
- William Gedney Archive
- Fires, Raymond Carver
- Suite Vénitienne, Sophie Calle
Optional Readings
- Spring and all, William Carlos Williams
- What’s in a face, Julian Stallabrass
- Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation), Allan Sekula
- Unravelling Visions: Women’s Photography in Recessionary Japan, Gabriella Lukacs
- In My Life, Nan Goldin
- William Eggleston’s Guide, John Szarkowski
- The Artist’s Responsibility, Andrey Tarkovsky
- One Way Street, Walter Benjamin