Suggested Reading:
Photography
- Barry, Ann Marie Seward (1997)
Visual Intelligence: Perception,
Image and Manipulation in Visual Communication. New York: State University of New York Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Barthes, Roland (1977)
Image-Music-Text. London: Fontana
('The Photographic Image' and 'Rhetoric of the Image')
- Barthes, Roland (1982)
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. London: Cape
- Becker, H S (Ed.) (1981)
Exploring Society Photographically.
Chicago: Chicago University Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Benjamin, Walter (1970 [1935]):
'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction'. In
Illuminations (Ed. Hannah Arendt; trans.
Harry Zohn). London: Cape (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Berger, John (1972)
Ways of Seeing. London: BBC/Penguin (not explicitly semiotic but very useful)
- Berger, John (1980)
About Looking. London: Writers & Readers (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Berger, John (1982) 'Appearances'. In John Berger & Jean Mohr
Another Way of Telling. Cambridge: Granta/Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp. 81-129 (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Berger, John (2013)
Understanding a Photograph. London: Penguin
- Bolton, Richard (Ed.) (1989)
The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Burgin, Victor (Ed.) (1982)
Thinking Photography. London: Macmillan (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Chalfen, Richard (1987)
Snapshot Versions of Life. Bowling Green, OH:
Bowling Green State University Popular Press
- Chandler, Daniel (1997) 'Visual Perception: Individual Differences,
Purposes and Needs'. [WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Modules/MC10220/visper04.html
- Chandler, Daniel (1998) 'Notes on "the Gaze"'. [WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Documents/short/gaze.html
- Chandler, Daniel (2007)
Semiotics: The Basics (2nd Edn.). London: Routledge
- Chandler, Daniel and Rod Munday (2011)
Dictionary of Media and Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Clarke, Graham (1997)
The Photograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press;
brief extract 'How Do We Read a Photograph?' [WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Modules/MC10220/reading_photos.html (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Evans, Harold (1978)
Pictures on a Page: Photo-journalism,
Graphics and Picture-Editing. London: Heinemann (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Feininger, Andreas (1974)
Photographic Seeing. London: Thames & Hudson (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Goffman, Erving (1979)
Gender Advertisements. New York: Harper &
Row/London: Macmillan (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Goldberg, Vicki (1991)
The Power of Photography: How Photographs
Changed Our Lives. New York: Abbeville Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Gombrich, Ernst H (1977)
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of
Pictorial Representation. London: Phaidon (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Hall, Stuart (1981): 'The Determinations of News Photographs'. In
Stanley Cohen & Jock Young (Eds.)
The Manufacture of News: Social Problems,
Deviance and the Mass Media. London: Constable, pp. 236-243 (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Hirsch, Julia (1981)
Family Photographs: Content, Meaning and Effect.
New York: Oxford University Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- King, Graham (1984)
"Say Cheese!" Looking at Snapshots in a New Way.
New York: Dodd, Mead (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Kress, Gunther & Theo Van Leeuwen (2006)
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge
- Lutz, Catherine & Jane Collins (1994) 'The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes:
The Example of National Geographic'. In Taylor (Ed.), op. cit., 363-84 (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Messaris, Paul (1997)
Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in
Advertising. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Mitchell, W J T (1994)
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Chapter 9: 'The Photographic Essay: Four Case Studies', pp. 281-322) (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Newton, Julianne H (2001)
The Burden of Visual Truth: The Role of
Photojournalism in Mediating Reality. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Nichols, Bill (1981)
Ideology and the Image. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press (Chapters 1 & 2)
- Rudisill, Richard (1982): 'On Reading Photographs',
Journal of American Culture 5(3): 1-14
- Sanders, Noel (1988): 'Angles on the Image'. In Gunther Kress (Ed.)
Communication and Culture. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales
University Press, pp. 131-56
- Sobieszek, Robert A (1988)
The Art of Persuasion: A History of Advertising Photography.
New York: Harry N Abrams (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Sonesson, Göran (1989a)
Pictorial Concepts: Inquiries into the Semiotic Heritage and Its Relevance for the Analysis of
the Visual World. Lund: Lund University Press
- Sonesson, Göran (1989b)
Semiotics of Photography: On Tracing the Index. Lund: Institute of Art History
- Sontag, Susan (1979)
On Photography. Harmondsworth: Penguin (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Spence, Jo (1986)
Putting Myself in the Picture. London:
Camden Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Spence, Jo & Patricia Holland (Eds) (1991)
Family Snaps: The Meanings of Domestic
Photography. London: Virago (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Tagg, John (1988)
The Burden of Representation: Essays on
Photographies and Histories. Basingstoke: Macmillan
- Taylor, Lucien (Ed.) (1994)
Visualizing Theory. New York: Routledge (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Wagner, Jon (Ed.) (1979)
Images of Information: Still Photography in the
Social Sciences. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Wells, Liz (Ed.) (1997)
Photography: A Critical Introduction.
London: Routledge (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Ziller, Robert (1990)
Photographing the Self. Newbury Park, CA: Sage (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
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