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  • A Poetics of Composition , Bris Uspensky (1973)
  • Words and Pictures: On the Literal and the Symbolic in the Illustration of a Text Meyer Schapiro (1973)
  • A Theory of Semitoics Umberto Eco, (1976)
  • Beyond Modern Sculpture, Jack Burnham (1968)
  • The Structure of Art, Jack Burnham (1971)
  • The Order of Things, Michel Foucault (1970)
  • Elements of Semiology, Roland Barthes (1964)
  • Act of Creation, Arthur Koestler (1964)
  • Art and Visual Perception, Rudolf Arnheim, (1974)  — Gestalt
  • The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Wiener (1950)
  • Mathematical Basis of the Arts, Schiliinger
  • Aesthetics and Psychobiology , Berlyne(1971) 
  • A Theory of Human Curiosity, Berlyne , 1954, British Journal of Psychology
  • Fechner — Zur experimentalen Aesthetik ,1871 
 
 Experts and Masters of the Game freely wove the initial theme into unlimited combinations. For a long time one school of players favored the technique of stating side by side, developing in counterpoint, and finally harmoniously combining two hostile themes or ideas, such as law and freedom, individual and community. In such a Game the goal was to develop both themes or theses with complete equality and impartiality, to evolve out of thesis and antithesis the purest possible synthesis .... We would scarcely be exaggerating if we ventured to say that for a small circle of genuine Glass Bead Game players the Game was virtually equivalent to worship, although it deliberately eschewed developing any theology of its own.  -HERMANN HESSE The Glass Bead Game (pp. 40-41)  
 
 The first result of our substitution is very remarkable. If the totem animal is the father, then the two main commandments of totemism, the two taboo rules which constitute its nucleus-not to kill the totem animal and not to use a woman belonging to the same totem for sexual purposes-agree in content with the two crimes of Oedipus, who slew his father and took his motlier to wife, and also with the child's two primal wishes whose insufficient repression or whose reawakening forms the nucleus of perhaps all neuroses.  ---SIGMUND FREUD Totem and Taboo

Structuralism is the search for unsuspected harmonies. It is the discovery of a system of relations latent in a series of objects. 

-HAYES AND HAYES Claude Levi-Strauss (p. 4)

 But, whether one deplores or rejoices in the fact, there are still zones in which savage thought, like savage species, is relatively protected. This is the case of art, to which our civilization accords the status of a national part, with all the advantages and inconveniences attending so artificial a formula; and it is particularly the case of so many as yet 'uncleared' sectors of social life, where, through indifference or inability, and most often without our knowing why, primitive thought continues to flourish.  -CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS The Savage Mind (p. 219)

101 Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century

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the list:
1907 Curtis, Edward ： The North American Indian
1909 Coburn, Alvin Langdon ： London
1911 Stieglitz, Alfred ： Camera Work, Number XXXVI
1917 Strand, Paul ： Camera Work, Number XLIX, Number L
1925 Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo ： Malerei Fotografie Film
1927 Germaine Krull ： Metal
1928 Blossfeldt, Karl ： Urformen der Kunst
1928 Renger-Patzsch, Albert ： Die Welt ist Schon
1929 Sander, August ： Antlitz der Zeit
1929 Steichen, Edward and Carl Sandburg ： Steichen The Photographer
1930 Adams, Ansel ： Taos Pueblo
1930 Atget, Eugene ： Atget Photographe de Paris
1930 Cahun, Claude ： Aveux non Avenus
1930 Drtikol, Frantisuek ： Zena ve Svetle
1931 Ernst, Max and Rene Crevel ： Mr. Knife Miss Fork
1931 Lerski, Helmar ： Kopfe des Alltags
1931 Moi Ver ： Paris
1931 Salomon, Erich ： Beruhmte Zeitgenossen
1933 Brassai ： Paris de Nuit
1933 Ullman, Doris and Julia Peterkin ： Roll, Jordan, Roll
1934 Man Ray ： Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris
1935 Lissitzky, El ： Industriia sotsializma
1935 Man Ray and Paul Eluard ： Facile
1936 Bellmer, Hans ： La Poupee
1935 Brandt, Bill ： The English At Home
1936 Hugnet, Georges ： La Septieme Face du De
1937 Bourke-White, Margaret and Erskine Caldwell ： You Have Seen Their Faces
1937 Riefenstahl, Leni ： Schonheit im Olympischen Kampf
1938 Evans, Walker ： American Photographs
1939 Abbott, Berenice ： Changing New York
1939 Lange, Dorothea and Paul Schuster Taylor ： An American Exodus
1941 Evans, Walker and James Agee ： Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
1945 Brodovitch, Alexey ： Ballet
1945 Kertesz, Andre ： Day of Paris
1945 Styrsky, Jindrich and Jindrich Heisler ： Na jehlach techto dni
1945 Weegee ： Naked City
1946 Morris, Wright ： The Inhabitants
1946 Tmej, Zdenek ： Abeceda
1947 Capa, Robert ： Slightly Out of Focus
1947 Weston, Edward Fifty Photographs
1949 Doisneau, Robert and Blaise Cendrars ： La Banlieu de Paris
1952 Cartier-Bresson, Henri ： The Decisive Moment
1952 Strand, Paul and Claude Roy ： La France de Profil
1955 DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes ： The Sweet Flypaper of Life
1956 Klein, William ： William Klein : New York
1956 Sudek, Josef ： Josef Sudek Fotografie
1956 Van der Elsken, Ed ： Een iefdesgeschiedenis in Saint Germain des Pres
1959 Avedon, Richard and Truman Capote ： Observations
1959 Frank, Robert ： The Americans
1959 Siskind, Aaron ： Photographs
1959 Van der Elsken, Ed ： Jazz
1960 Penn, Irving ： Moments Preserved
1961 Brandt, Bill ： Perspective of Nudes
1962 Sommer, Frederick ： Frederick Sommer 1939-1962 Photographs
1963 Hosoe, Eikoh and Yukio Mishima ： 薔薇刑 (Barakei) Killed by Roses
1964 Callahan, Harry ： Photographs
1965 Peter Hill Beard ： The End of the Game
1965 Gowin, Emmet ： Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself
1965 Kawada, Kikuji ： 地図 The Map
1965 Helen Levitt ： A Way of Seeing
1966 Evans, Walker ： Many Are Called
1966 Ruscha, Edward ： Every Building on the Sunset Strip
1967 Mulas, Ugo ： New York The New Art Scene
1967 Warhol, Andy ： Andy Warhol’s Index (Book)
1968 Danny Lyon ： The Bikeriders
1969 Winogrand, Garry ： The Animals
1970 Becher, Bernhard und Hilla ： Anonyme Skulpturen
1970 Davidson, Bruce ： East 100th Street
1970 Friedlander, Lee ： Self Portraits
1970 Lartigue, Jacques-Henri ： Diary of a Century
1971 Araki Nobuyoshi 荒木 経惟 ： センチメンタルな旅Sentimental Journey
1971 Clark, Larry ： Tulsa
1971 Danny Lyon ： Conversations with the Dead
1971 Samaras, Lucas ： Samaras Album
1972 Arbus, Diane ： Diane Arbus
1972 Molinier, Pierre and Peter Gorsen ： Pierre Molinier, lui-meme
1972 Moriyama, Daido : 写真よさようなら Bye, Bye Photography, Dear
1973 Lesy, Michael ： Wisconsin Death Trip
1973 Owens, Bill ： Suburbia
1974 Adams, Robert ： The New West
1974 Baltz, Lewis ： The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California
1974 Meatyard, Ralph Eugene ： The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater
1975 Smith, W. Eugene ： Minamata
1976 Eggleston, William ： William Eggleston’s Guide
1976 Friedlander, Lee ： The American Monument
1976 Meiselas, Susan ： Carnival Strippers
1977 Mandel, Mike and Larry Sultan ： Evidence
1979 Model, Lisette ： Lisette Model
1983 Clark, Larry ： Teenage Lust
1983 Peress, Gilles ： Telex Iran
1985 Goldberg, Jim ： Rich and Poor
1986 Goldin, Nan ： The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1986 Bruce Weber ： O Rio de Janeiro
1987 Burke, Bill ： I Want To Take Picture
1987 Sternfeld, Joel ： American Prospects
1989 Fontcuberta, Joan and Pere Formiguera ： Fauna
1990 Ginsberg, Allen ： Allen Ginsberg Photographs
1991 Baumgarten, Lothar ： Carbon
1994 Boltanski, Christian ： Menschlich
1995 Prince, Richard ： Adult Comedy Action Drama
1996 David LaChapelle ： LaChapelle Land