Further Readings for 11.309J / 4.215J, Fall 2012
Reading and Telling Landscape
Adams, Robert. Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values. Aperture, 1981.
Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling. Pantheon, 1982.
Clay, Grady. Close Up: How to Read the American City. University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Collier, John, Jr., and Malcolm Collier. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method.
University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Cosgrove, Denis, and Stephen Daniels, eds. The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic
Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Cronon, William. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." Journal of American History 78,
no. 4 (March 1992).
Elkins, James. How to Use Your Eyes. Routledge, 2000.
Lange, Dorothea. American Country Woman. Amon Carter Museum, 1967.
Lange, Dorothea, and Paul S. Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Yale University
Press, 1969.
Meinig, D. W., ed. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. Oxford, 1979.
Potteiger, Matthew, and Jamie Purinton. Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories.
Wiley, 1998.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception. Prentice-Hall, 1974.
———. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
Watts, May Theilgaard. Reading the Landscape of America. Collier, 1975.
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Further Readings for 11.309J / 4.215J, Fall 2012
Lights of Day, in Season, in Place
Adcock, Craig, and James Turrell. The Art of Light and Space. University of California Press, 1990.
Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color. Yale, 1963.
Callahan, Harry. New Color: Photographs 1978-1987. Hallmark, 1988.
Freeman, Michael. Light: Working with Available and Photographic Lighting. Amphoto, 1988.
Gage, John. Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction. University of
California Press, 1993.
———. Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism. University of California Press, 1999.
Itten, Johannes. The Elements of Color. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.
Lynch, David K., and William Livingston. Color and Light in Nature. Cambridge, 1995.
Meyerowitz, Joel. Cape Light: Color Photographs. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1985.
———. Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive. Phaidon Press, 2006.
———. Bay/Sky. Bulfinch Press, 1993.
———. St. Louis and the Arch. Little Brown, 1980.
Minnaert, M. G. J. Light and Color in the Outdoors. Springer-Verlag, 1974.
Misrach, Richard. The Sky Book. Arena, 2000.
Rossing, Thomas, and Christopher Chiaverina. Light Science: Physics and the Visual Arts. Springer, 1999.
Smith, Eugene W., and Aileen M. Smith. Minamata. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975.
Storaro, Vittorio. Writing with Light. Volume 1: The Light. Aperture, 2003.
Swirnoff, Lois. Color of Cities: An International Perspective. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
White, Minor. Light7: Photographs from an Exhibition on a Theme. MIT Press, 1968.
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Further Readings for 11.309J / 4.215J, Fall 2012
Significant Detail
Abell, Sam. The Life of a Photograph. National Geographic, 2008.
Adams, Ansel. Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs. Little Brown, 1983.
Adams, Robert. The New West. Colorado Associated University Press, 1974.
– – –. From the Missouri West. Aperture, 1980.
Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton-Mifflin, 1941.
Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, et al. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings,
Construction. Oxford University Press, 1977.
Appleton, Jay. The Experience of Landscape. Wiley, 1975.
Arnheim, Rudolf. "Order and Complexity in Landscape Design." In Toward a Psychology of Art. University
of California Press, 1966.
———. Visual Thinking. University of California Press, 1969.
Balmori, Diana, and Margaret Morton. Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives. Yale University Press, 1993.
Baltz, Lewis. Park City. Artspace Press, 1980.
Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling. Pantheon, 1995.
Caponigro, Paul. Paul Caponigro. Aperture, 1967.
– – –. Landscape: Photographs. McGraw-Hill, 1975.
———. Wise Silence. Little Brown, 1983.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. City and Landscapes. Bullfinch, 2001.
———. The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photographs and Photographers. Aperture, 1999.
———. The Europeans. Little Brown, 1998.
Clay, Grady. Close Up: How to Read the American City. University of Chicago Press, 1973.
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Further Readings for 11.309J / 4.215J, Fall 2012
Corner, James, and Alex S. MacLean. Taking Measures Across the American Landscape. Yale University
Press, 1996.
Davidson, Bruce. East 100th Street. Harvard University Press, 1970.
Doisneau, Robert, and Blaise Cendrars, La Banlieue de Paris. Pierre Seghers, 1949.
Evans, Walker. American Photographs. Doubleday, 1938.
Evans, Terry. Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky. Kansas, 1986.
Frank, Robert. The Americans. Grossman, 1969.
Friedlander, Lee. Factory Valleys: Ohio and Pennsylvania. Callaway, 1982.
Fuchs, R.H. Richard Long. Thames and Hudson, 1986.
Goldsworthy, Andy. A Collaboration with Nature. Abrams, 1990.
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. MIT Press, 1995.
Heaney, Seamus. "The Sense of Place." In Preoccupations. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980, pp. 131-149.
Hood, Walter. Urban Diaries. Spacemaker, 1997.
Horn, Roni. To Place. (Multiple volumes on Iceland published by various presses, 1990-2001.)
Hoskins, W.G. The Making of the English Landscape. Penguin, 1970.
Jackson, J. B. The Essential Landscape: The New Mexico Photographic Survey. University of New Mexico
Press, 1985.
Kenna, Michael, and Eric T. Haskell. Le Notre's Gardens. RAM Publications, 1997.
Klett, Mark. Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest. University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Klett, Mark, Rebecca Solnit, and Byron White. Yosemite in Time. Trinity University Press, 1992.Lynch,
Kevin. Image of the City. MIT Press, 1960.
Lambert, Phyllis. Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James.
MIT Press, 1996.
Lynch, Kevin. What Time Is This Place? MIT Press, 1972.
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Further Readings for 11.309J / 4.215J, Fall 2012
Meyerowitz, Joel. Foreword in Creating a Sense of Place. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
– ––. St. Louis and the Arch. Little Brown, 1985
Morris, Wright. The Inhabitants. Scribner’s, 1946.
Morrison, Philip, and Phylis, Morrison, and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Powers of Ten. Scientific
American, 1982.
Owens, Bill. Suburbia. Straight Arrow Books, 1973.
Siskind, Aaron. Harlem Photographs 1932-1940. Smithsonian, 1990.
Smithson, Robert. Photo Works. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.
Soth, Alex. Niagara. Steidl, 2006.
Strand, Paul, and Basil Davidson. Tir a Mhurain: Outer Hebrides. MacGibbon and Kee, 1962.
Strand, Paul, and Claude Roy. La France de Profil (A Profile for France). La Guilde du Livre, 1952.
Strand, Paul, and Nancy Newhall. Time in New England. Oxford University Press, 1950.
Szarkowski, John. Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern
Art. Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
Thomas, Ann, ed. Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science. Yale University Press, 1997.
Vanderbilt, Paul. Between the Landscape and Its Other. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Ward, Alan. American Designed Landscapes. Spacemaker, 1998.
Watts, May Theilgaard. Reading the Landscape of America. Collier, 1975.
Welty, Eudora. One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression. University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
Westerbeck, Colin, and Joel Meyerowitz. Bystander: A History of Street Photography. Bullfinch, 1994.
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Further Readings for 11.309J / 4.215J, Fall 2012
Landscapes Poetics
Bourassa, Steven. The Aesthetics of Landscape. Belhaven, 1991.
Bye, A.E. Art into Landscape; Landscape into Art. PDA, 1983.
Caponigro, Paul. Sunflower. Filmhaus, 1974.Dewey, John. Art as Experience. Capricorn, 1958.
Fowles, John, and Frank Horvath. The Tree. Little Brown, 1979.
Jussim, Estelle, and Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock. Landscape as Photograph. Yale University Press, 1985.
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Szarkowski, John. Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern
Art. Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
Vanderbilt, Paul. Between the Landscape and Its Other. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
White, Minor. Mirrors Messages Manifestation. Aperture, 1969.
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Further Readings for 11.309J / 4.215J, Fall 2012
Landscape Narratives
Cronon, William. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." Journal of American History 78,
no. 4 (March 1992).
Douglas, Helen. Unravelling the Ripple. Morningstar, 2001.
Groebli, Rene. Magie der Schiene (The Magic of the Tracks). Kubus Verlag, 1949.
Gossage, John. The Pond. Aperture, 1985.
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. MIT Press, 1995.
Holleley, Douglas. Photo-Editing and Presentation. Clarellen, 2009.
Hosoe, Eikoh. Kamaitachi. Gendaischicho-sha, 1969.
Lange, Dorothea. American Country Woman. Amon Carter Museum, 1967.
Morris, Wright. Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory. Aperture, 1989.
Morrison, Philip, and Phylis, Morrison, and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Powers of Ten. Scientific
American, 1982.
Potteiger, Matthew, and Jamie Purinton, Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories.
Wiley, 1998.
Smith, Kevin. Structure of the Visual Book. Visual Studies Workshop, 1984.
Tucker, Anne Wilkes, ed. Target III: In Sequence. Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.
Vanderbilt, Paul. Between the Landscape and Its Other. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Watts, May Theilgaard. Reading the Landscape of America. Collier, 1975.
Weifenbach, Terri. In Your Dreams. Nazraeli, 1997.
White, Minor. Mirrors Messages Manifestation. Aperture, 1969.
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Further Readings for 11.309J / 4.215J, Fall 2012
Storytelling: Words and Images
Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton-Mifflin, 1941.
Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling. Pantheon, 1982.
Fowles, John, and Frank Horvath. The Tree. Little Brown, 1979.
Horn, Roni. To Place. (Multiple volumes on Iceland published by various presses, 1990-2001.)
Morris, Wright. Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory. Aperture, 1989
Sommer, Frederick. Words and Images. Center for Creative Photography, 1984.
– – –. “1939-1962 Photographs.” In Aperture 10, no. 4 (1962).
Strand, Paul, and Claude Roy. La France de Profil (A Profile of France). La Guilde du Livre, 1952.
Welty, Eudora. One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression. University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
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Further Readings for 11.309J / 4.215J, Fall 2012
Photography as Inquiry
Banks, Marcus, and Howard Morphy, eds. Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Yale University Press, 1997.
Becker, Howard S. Exploring Society Photographically. Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern
University, 1981.
– – –. “Photography and Sociology.” In Doing Things Together. Northwestern University Press, 1986.
Collier, John, Jr., and Malcolm Collier. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method.
University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Elkins, James, ed. Artists with PhDs. New Academia, 2009.
Frost, Robert. “The Figure a Poem Makes.” In Collected Poems of Robert Frost. Holt, 1939.
Janis, Eugenia Parry, and Wendy MacNeil, eds. Photography within the Humanities. Addison House,
1977.
Knowles, Caroline, and Paul Sweetman, eds. Picturing the Social Landscape: Visual Methods in the
Sociological Imagination. Routledge, 2004.
Macleod, Katy, and Lin Holdridge, eds. Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research. Routledge,
2010.
Pink, Sarah. Doing Visual Ethnography. Sage, 2007.
Pink, Sarah, László Kürti, and Ana Isabel Afonso, eds. Working Images: Visual Representation in
Ethnography. Routledge, 2004.
Prosser, Jon, ed. Image-based Research. Routledge, 1998.
Rose, Gillian. “Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project.” In Visual Methodologies. Sage, 2007.
Thomas, Ann, ed. Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science. Yale University Press, 1997.
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