Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium.
The nature of photographs
Shore explores ways of understanding photographs from all periods and all types - from iconic images to found photographs, from negatives to digital files. In this book, Shore explores ways of understanding photographs from all periods and all types - from iconic images to found photographs, from negatives to digital files.
A Camera in a Room
Abelardo Morell's first monograph, from the Smithsonian's Photographers at Work series, includes selections from his camera obscura series, as well as samples of book photographs, objects, and night shots.
on the Portrait and the Moment
Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015)--well known for the emotional power of her pictures, be they of people or animals--offers her insight on observing the world and capturing dramatic moments that reveal more than the reality at hand.