Old Books

Founders Shelf

books from old photography course:

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Read from each, as much as you want, then write about 500 words explaining why you chose what you chose. Provide any linkages, please.
Or, you may present images, drawings, photos, whatever you decide to illustrate your understanding of the materials.

Lyons: Photographers on Photography

The contents of this compilation of photographer’s writings, listed in chronologic order. Nathan Lyons indexed them by author. I used to teach them as opposing, or alternating views, providing a handout of the index rearranged by year published.

1892 PARADOXES OF ART, SCIENCE, AND PHOTOGRAPHY — HENRY P. ROBINSON
1897 THE HAND CAMERA—ITS PRESENT IMPORTANCE — ALFRED STIEGLITZ
1899 SCIENCE AND ART — PETER H. EMERSON
1907 ON THE STRAIGHT PRINT — ROBERT DEMACHY
1911 THE RELATION OF TIME TO ART — ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
1916 THE FUTURE OF PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY — ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
1917 PHOTOGRAPHY — PAUL STRAND
1922 PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE NEW GOD — PAUL STRAND
1923 THE ART MOTIVE IN PHOTOGRAPHY — PAUL STRAND
1923 HOW I CAME TO PHOTOGRAPH CLOUDS — ALFRED STIEGLITZ
1923 LIGHT-A MEDIUM OF PLASTIC EXPRESSION — LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY
1930 PHOTOGRAPHY—NOT PICTORIAL — EDWARD WESTON
1932 A CONTEMPORARY MEANS TO CREATIVE EXPRESSION — EDWARD WESTON
1934- THE AGE OF LIGHT — MAN RAY
1935 CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY — FRANCIS BRUGUIERE
1936 FROM PIGMENT TO LIGHT — LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY
1940 DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY — DOROTHEA LANGE
1940 WHAT IS GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY? — ANSEL ADAMS
1942 ALFRED STIEGLITZ: FOUR HAPPENINGS
1943 SEEING PHOTOGRAPHICALLY — EDWARD WESTON
1944- A PERSONAL CREDO — ANSEL ADAMS
1945 THE DRAMA OF OBJECTS — AARON SISKIND
1946 AN ADVENTURE IN PHOTOGRAPHY — HARRY CALLAHAN
1948 INTRODUCTION TO PORTFOLIO ONE — ANSEL ADAMS
1948 PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNALISM — W. EUGENE SMITH
1951 IT HAS TO WALK ALONE — BERENICE ABBOTT
1951 PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE CROSSROADS — BERENICE ABBOTT
1951 FIFTY YEARS OF DOCUMENTARY — ARTHUR SIEGEL
1952 PHOTOGRAPHING THE FAMILIAR — DOROTHEA LANGE
1952 INTRODUCTION TO THE DECISIVE MOMENT — HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
1952 THE CAMERA MIND AND EYE — MINOR WHITE
1954 EUGENE SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY — W. EUGENE SMITH
1956 CREDO — AARON SISKIND
1958 A STATEMENT — ROBERT FRANK
1958 THE WORLD’S 10 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHERS — W. EUGENE SMITH
1960 ON PHOTOGRAPHY — EDWARD STEICHEN
1961 PHOTOGRAPHY IN OUR TIME –HENRY HOLMES SMITH
1962 SPACE AND TIME — WYNN BULLOCK
1963 EQUIVALENCE: THE PERENNIAL TREND — MINOR WHITE

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