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Annotated bibliography with 5 key texts (synopsis)

  • Zylinska, J., 2017. Nonhuman Photography. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England.

Nonhuman Photography is a theoretical text which looks at three types of "nonhuman" photography

  • Cotton, C., 2007. The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Reprinted. ed, Thames & Hudson world of art. Thames & Hudson, London.

The Photograph as Contemporary Art features reproductions of works by contemporary photographic artists separated into a number of (non-conventional) categories. Each image is accompanied by a description and critical analysis of the artist and/or their featured work. As a whole the publication serves as a document which gives a good overview of contemporary photographic practices.

  • McKenzie, J., 2014. Light + Photomedia: A New History and Future of the Photographic Image, The international library of visual culture. Tauris, London.

Light + Photomedia proposes an alternative to the term photography and instead defines all media that incorporate light in some way as light-space-time structures and more broadly as photomedia.

  • Campany, D. (Ed.), 2007. The Cinematic, Documents of Contemporary Art. Whitechapel [u.a.], London.
  • Solnit, R. 2005. A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Canongate Books Ltd, 2005.



Other possible texts (yet to read):—

  • Photography is Magic - Charlotte Cotton
  • Wanderlust - Rebecca Solnit
  • Take Place: Photography and Place from Multiple Perspectives - Helen Westgeest (ed.)