CLASS SCHEDULE AND READING LIST
Required Reading
Two principal texts are required: Spirn, The Language of Landscape (Yale, 1998) is available at a bookstore or online; Spirn, The Eye Is a Door: Landscape, Photography, and the Art of Discovery (2014) is available as an e-book from Amazon. Some required readings, other than the above books, are available electronically on Canvas. Books for required looking assignments are on reserve at Hayden Library.
7 February. Landscape, Photography, and the Art of Discovery
Required Reading: Spirn, Language of Landscape, pp. 3-81; Spirn, "Introduction" and Photography and the Art of Visual Thinking" in The Eye Is a Door, ; Christopher Frayling, "Research in Art and Design," Royal College of Art Research Papers 1:1, 1993; Gillian Rose, "Making Images as Research Data" and "Using Images to Disseminate Research Findings," in Visual Methodologies, fourth edition (Sage, 2016).
Further Reading: Anne Whiston Spirn, "Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect of Landscape Part I" and "Part II"; Anne Whiston Spirn, Daring to Look (University of Chicago, 2008); D.W. Meinig, ed., The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes (Oxford, 1979); Matthew Potteiger and Jamie Purinton, Landscape Narratives (Wiley, 1998); May Watts, Reading the Landscape of America (Collier, 1975); William Cronon, "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative," Journal of American History 78:4 (March 1992); James Elkins, How to Use Your Eyes (Routledge, 2000); Martin Krieger, Urban Tomographies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011); Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels, eds., The Iconography of Landscape (Cambridge, 1988); Grady Clay, Close Up: How to Read the American City (Chicago, 1973; John Berger and Jean Mohr, Another Way of Telling (Pantheon, 1982); John Collier, Jr. and Malcolm Collier, Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method (New Mexico, 1986); Dorothea Lange, American Country Woman (Amon Carter Museum, 1967); Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor, American Exodus (Yale, 1969); Robert Adams, Beauty in Photography (Aperture, 1981).
14 February. Lights of Day, in Season, in Place I
Required Reading: Galen Rowell, Mountain Light (Sierra Club, 1986), pp. 4-9; 38-43; 58-67; 73-94. Spirn, "Prologue: Earth Shadow," "The Craft the Subject Demands," and "Lights of Day, in Season, in Place," in The Eye Is a Door: Photography and the Art of Visual Thinking
Required Looking Assignment: Richard Misrach, Golden Gate (Aperture, 2004).
Further Reading: David K Lynch and William Livingston, Color and Light in Nature (Cambridge, 1995); M. G. J. Minnaert, Light and Color in the Outdoors (Springer-Verlag, 1974); Thomas Rossing and Christopher Chiaverina, Light Science: Physics and the Visual Arts (Springer 1999); Lois Swirnoff, Color of Cities (McGraw-Hill, 2000); Michael Freeman, Light (Amphoto, 1988); Joel Meyerowitz, Cape Light (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1985) and Aftermath (Phaidon, 2006), see selected photos at Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive; Richard Misrach, The Sky Book (Arena 2000) and Golden Gate (Aperture, 2004); Minor White, Light 7: Photographs from an Exhibition on a Theme (MIT, 1968); Eugene W. Smith and Aileen M. Smith, Minamata (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975); Craig Adcock, James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space (California, 1990); Vittorio Storaro, Writing with Light. Part One: The Light (Aperture, 2003);.
16 February. Site Selection Due by 7 PM. Post to Canvas.
21 February. Lights of Day, in Season, in Place II
Light Assignment due on Flickr by 8AM, Monday, February 19
Required Reading: Galen Rowell, Mountain Light (Sierra Club, 1986), pp. 182-219; Spirn, "Knowing Where to Stand," in The Eye Is a Door.
Further Reading: Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (Yale, 1963); Johannes Itten, The Elements of Color (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970); John Gage, Color and Culture (California, 1993); John Gage, Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism (California, 1999); David K Lynch and William Livingston, Color and Light in Nature (Cambridge, 1995); M. G. J Minnaert, Light and Color in the Outdoors (Springer-Verlag, 1974); Lois Swirnoff, Color of Cities (McGraw-Hill, 2000); Joel Meyerowitz, Cape Light (Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1985), Bay/Sky (Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1993), and St. Louis and the Arch (Little, Brown, 1980); Harry Callahan, New Color: Photographs 1978-1987 (Hallmark, 1988); Craig Adcock, James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space (California, 1990).
28 February. Significant Detail I: An Idea or Story in a Single Image / Web Workshop
Required Reading: Spirn, The Language of Landscape, 85-167; Spirn, "Knowing Where to Stand,"; "What Color Tells," and "Significant Detail," in The Eye Is a Door.
Required Looking Assignment: Kristen Lubben, ed., Magnum Contact Sheets (Thames and Hudson, 2011); Joel Meyerowitz, "What You Put in the Frame Determines the Photograph"; Henri Cartier-Bresson, "Decisive Moment".
Further Reading: Clifford Geertz, "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture," and "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cock Fight,"in The Interpretation of Cultures (Basic Books, 1973), pp. 3-30 and 412-453; ; Dorothea Lange, American Country Woman (Amon Carter Museum, 1967); Wright Morris, Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory (Aperture, 1989); Douglas Holleley, Photo-Editing and Presentation (Clarellen, 2009); John Collier, Jr. and Malcolm Collier, Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method (University of New Mexico Press, 1986); Howard S. Becker, Exploring Society Photographically (Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, 1981); Howard S. Becker, "Photography and Sociology," in Doing Things Together (Northwestern University Press, 1986); Jon Prosser, ed., Image-based Research (Routledge, 1998); Sarah Pink, Laszlo Kurti, and Ana Isabel Afonso, eds., Working Images: Visual Representation in Ethnography (Routledge, 2004), Gillian Rose, "Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project," in Visual Methodologies (Sage, 2007); Caroline Knowles and Paul Sweetman, eds., Picturing the Social Landscape: Visual Methods in the Sociological Imagination (Routledge, 2004); Sarah Pink, Doing Visual Ethnography (Sage, 2007); Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy, eds., Rethinking Visual Anthropology (Yale University Press, 1997); Eugenia Parry Janis and Wendy MacNeil, eds., Photography within the Humanities (Addison House, 1977); Katy Macleod and Lin Holdridge, eds. Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research (Routledge, 2010); James Elkins, ed. Artists with PhDs (New Academia, 2009); Robert Frost, "The Figure a Poem Makes," Collected Poems of Robert Frost (New York: Holt, 1939); Ann Thomas, ed., Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (Yale University Press, 1997).
6 March. Photography as a Research Method
Required Reading: Spirn, "Photography and the Art of Visual Thinking" and "The Eye Is a Door," in The Eye Is a Door; Gillian Rose, "Making Images as Research Data" and "Using Images to Disseminate Research Findings," in Visual Methodologies, fourth edition (Sage, 2016); Christopher Frayling, "Research in Art and Design," Royal College of Art Research Papers 1:1, 1993.Required Looking Assignment: Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor, American Exodus (1939 edition, NOT 1969 edition) PLUS EITHER Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis (New York Academy of Sciences, 1942) OR Camilo Jose Vergara, The New American Ghetto (Rutgers University Press, 1995) OR Richard Misrach and Kate Orff, Petrochemical America (Aperture, 2014) OR John Pawson, A Visual Inventory (Phaidon 2012) OR Anne Whiston Spirn Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field University of Chicago, 2008).
Further Reading: John Collier, Jr. and Malcolm Collier, Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method (University of New Mexico Press, 1986); Howard S. Becker, Exploring Society Photographically (Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, 1981); Howard S. Becker, "Photography and Sociology," in Doing Things Together (Northwestern University Press, 1986); Jon Prosser, ed., Image-based Research (Routledge, 1998); Sarah Pink, Laszlo Kurti, and Ana Isabel Afonso, eds., Working Images: Visual Representation in Ethnography (Routledge, 2004), Gillian Rose, "Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project," in Visual Methodologies (Sage, 2007); Caroline Knowles and Paul Sweetman, eds., Picturing the Social Landscape: Visual Methods in the Sociological Imagination (Routledge, 2004); Sarah Pink, Doing Visual Ethnography (Sage, 2007); Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy, eds., Rethinking Visual Anthropology (Yale University Press, 1997); Eugenia Parry Janis and Wendy MacNeil, eds., Photography within the Humanities (Addison House, 1977); Katy Macleod and Lin Holdridge, eds. Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research (Routledge, 2010); James Elkins, ed. Artists with PhDs (New Academia, 2009); Robert Frost, "The Figure a Poem Makes," Collected Poems of Robert Frost (New York: Holt, 1939); Ann Thomas, ed., Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (Yale University Press, 1997).
13 March. Significant Detail II
Significant Detail assignment due on Flickr by 8AM, Monday, March 11.
Required Reading: Spirn, The Language of Landscape, 168-188.
Required Looking Assignment: Joel Meyerowitz, St. Louis and the Arch (Little, Brown, 1985).
Further Reading: W.G. Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape (Penguin, 1970); Kevin Lynch, What Time Is This Place? (MIT, 1972); Philip and Phylis Morrison and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten (Scientific American, 1982); John Berger and Jean Mohr, Another Way of Telling (Pantheon); James Corner and Alex S. MacLean, Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (Yale, 1996); Alan Ward, American Designed Landscapes (Spacemaker, 1998); Joel Meyerowitz, St. Louis and the Arch (Little, Brown, 1985); Paul Caponigro, Paul Caponigro (Aperture, 1967) and Landscape (McGraw Hill, 1975); Wright Morris, The Inhabitants (Scribner, 1946); Robert Adams, From the Missouri West (Aperture, 1980); Terry Evans, Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky (Kansas, 1986); J. B. Jackson, The Essential Landscape: The New Mexico Photographic Survey (New Mexico, 1985); Mark Klett, Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest (New Mexico, 1992); Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James (MIT, 1996); Michael Kenna, Le Notre's Gardens (Ram, 1997); Aaron Siskind, Harlem Photographs 1932-1940 (Smithsonian, 1990); Diana Balmori, and Margaret Morton, Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (Yale, 1993).
14-15 March. Meetings with Individual Students.
Required Reading: Anne Whiston Spirn, Ricardo Marin Viadel, and Joaquin Roldan,Photographic Pairs: Image, Art, and Inquiry (Comares Editorial, 2022) 5-28.
All photos due on Miro before meeting.
20 March. Significant Detail III: Poetics
Required Reading: Spirn, Language of Landscape, pp. 267-272.
Required Looking Assignment: EITHER Carrie Mae Weems, The Louisiana Project; OR Joel Meyerowitz, St. Louis and the Arch; OR Joel Sternfeld, American Prospects.
Further Reading: Dorothea Lange, American Country Woman (Amon Carter Museum, 1967); Keith Smith, "Homage to Nathan" and "Picture Relationships," in Structure of the Visual Book fourth edition (2010).
3 April. The Visual Pair
Visual Pair Assignment due on Flickr by 8AM, Monday, April 1.
Required Reading and Looking: Spirn, Marin Viadel, and Roldan Photographic Pairs: Image, Art, and Inquiry (Comares Editorial, 2022), 5-28, 94-135.
Further Reading and Looking: Spirn, "Marnas: A Garden Journey through Space, Time, and Ideas," the short film on Marnas website; "Conversations with Roy DeCarava," a film by Carroll Blue (access via MIT Libraries); Paul Berger, Leroy Searle, and Douglas Wadden, Radical Rational Space Time: Idea Networks in Photography , (Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 1983);Philip and Phylis Morrison and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten (Scientific American, 1982); Matthew Potteiger and Jamie Purinton, Landscape Narratives Wiley, 1998); Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History (MIT, 1995); May Watts, Reading the Landscape of America (Collier, 1975); Dorothea Lange, American Country Woman (Amon Carter Museum, 1967); William Cronon, "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative," Journal of American History 78:4 (March 1992); Paul Vanderbilt, Between the Landscape and Its Other (Johns Hopkins, 1993); Wright Morris, Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory (Aperture, 1989); Kevin Smith, Structure of the Visual Book (Visual Studies Workshop, 1984); Douglas Holleley, Photo-Editing and Presentation (Clarellen, 2009); Anne Wilkes Tucker, ed., Target III: In Sequence (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982; Minor White, Mirrors Messages Manifestation (Aperture, 1969); Rene Groebli, Magie der Schiene (Kubus Verlag, 1949); Eikoh Hosoe, Kamaitachi (Gendaischicho-sha, 1969); Terri Weifenbach, In Your Dreams (Nazraeli, 1997); Helen Douglas, Unravelling the Ripple (Morningstar, 2001).
9-10 April. Landscape Narratives. Meetings with Individual Students.
Storyboard of photo essay essay and all photos posted to Miro due for meeting.
Required Reading: Spirn, "'What Is there, Hidden and Real,'" in The Eye Is a Door; Keith Smith, "Picture Relationships," in Structure of the Visual Book fourth edition (2010), 211-221.
17 April. Narratives of Images and Words
Required Reading: Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones, "Death of a Valley," Aperture 8:3 (1960), 127-164 and Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor, American Exodus (1939 edition, NOT 1969 edition) PLUS EITHER Wright Morris, God's Country and My People (Harper and Row, 1968) OR Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life (Hill and Wang, 1967, access original 1955 edition online via MIT Libraries) OR Roni Horn, Another Water (The River Thames, for example) (Steidl, 2000).
Required Looking Assignment: 11.309 photo essays.
Further Reading: John Berger and Jean Mohr, Another Way of Telling (Pantheon, 1982); Eudora Welty, One Time One Place: Mississippi in the Depression (Mississippi, 1996); Wright Morris, Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory (Aperture, 1989); Frederick Sommer, Words and Images (Center for Creative Photography, 1984); John Fowles and Frank Horvath, The Tree (Little Brown, 1979); James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Houghton-Mifflin, 1941); Paul Strand and Claude Roy, La France de Profil (La Guilde du Livre, 1952); Roni Horn, To Place (multiple volumes on Iceland published by various presses, 1990-2001); Frederick Sommer, “1939-1962 Photographs,” Aperture 10:4 (1962).
23-24 April. Essay of Images and Words. No Class. Individual Meetings
Draft of photo essay due online for meeting.
29 April. Final Photo Essay due online by 8AM.
1 May. Review of Photo Essays in Online Galleries
8 May. Looking Forward: Reflections on Photography as Inquiry
Recommended Reading: Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson, Publish Your Photography Book, Third Edition (Radius, 2023), Blurb.
Recommended Reading | Top
This list of books and essays provides a mere glimpse into an enormous literature on photography and on the landscape of place. You should browse through these and augment them with your own list of readings and photographers.
Abell, Sam. The Life of a Photograph. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2008.
Adams, Ansel. Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.
Adams, Ansel. Ansel Adams in Color. Edited by Harry Callahan. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1993.
Adams, Robert. The New West. Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1974.
-----. Beauty in Photography. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981.
-----. Listening to the River. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1994.
Adcock, Craig. James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.
Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1941.
Alexander, Christopher. Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Appleton, Jay. The Experience of Landscape. London: John Wiley and Sons, 1975.
Arnheim, Rudolf. "Order and Complexity in Landscape Design." In Toward a Psychology of Art, 123-35. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1966.
------. Visual Thinking. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1969.
Balmori, Diana, and Morton, Margaret. Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Baltz, Lewis. Park City. Albuquerque: Artspace Press, 1980.
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. New York: Hill and Wang, 1975.
Beahan, Virginia, and McPhee, Laura. No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Landscape. New York: Aperture, 1998.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin Books, 1977.
------. About Looking. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
------. Sense of Sight. New York: Random House, 1985.
------, and Mohr, Jean. Another Way of Telling. New York: Pantheon, 1982.
Blatner, David, and Conrad Chavez. Real World Photoshop CS4. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2008.
Bourassa, Steven C. The Aesthetics of Landscape. London: Belhaven Press, 1991.
Brassaï. Paris by Night. New York: Pantheon, 1987; original edition, 1933.
Brown, Julia, ed. Occluded Front: James Turrell. Larkspur Landing, CA: Lapis Press, 1985.
Bye, A.E. Art into Landscape; Landscape into Art. Mesa, AZ: PDA Publishers, 1983.
Greenough, Sarah. Harry Callahan. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1996.
Caponigro, Paul. Paul Caponigro. New York: Aperture, 1967.
------. Landscape. New York: McGraw Hill, 1975.
------. Meditations in Light. Morris Press.
------. Sunflower. New York: Filmhaus, 1974.
Caponigro, John Paul. Adobe Photoshop Masterclass. San Francisco: Peachpit Press, 2000.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.
-----. The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photographs and Photographers. New York: Aperture, 1999.
------. City and Landscapes. Bullfinch Press, 2001.
------. The Europeans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.
Clark, Kenneth. Landscape into Art. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Clay, Grady. Close Up: How to Read the American City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Collier, John Jr., and Malcolm Collier. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Corner, James, and Alex S. MacLean. Taking Measures Across the American Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Cosgrove, Denis and Stephen Daniels eds. The Iconography of Landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Cronon, William. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." Journal of American History 78:4 (March 1992).
Davidson, Bruce. East 100th Street Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
DeCarava, Roy, and Langston Hughes. The Sweet Flypaper of Life New York: Hill and Wang, 1967, original edition 1955.
Doisneau, Robert, and Blaise Cendrars. La Banlieue de Paris. Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949.
Douglas, Helen.Unravelling the Ripple. Edinburgh: Morningstar, 2001.
Eggleston, William.William Eggleston’s Guide. New York: MOMA, 1976.
Evans, Terry. Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1986.
Evans, Walker. American Photographs. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1938.
Fowles, John, and Horvath, Frank. The Tree. Boston: Little and Brown, 1979.
Frank Robert. The Americans. New York: Grossman, 1969.
Fraser, Bruce. Real World Color management. Peachpit Press, 2004.
Freeman, Michael. Light. Amphoto Photography Workshop Series. New York: Amphoto, 1988.
Friedlander, Lee. Factory Valleys. New York: Callaway, 1982.
Fuchs, R.H. Richard Long. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986.
Gerster, Georg. Below from Above. New York: Abbeville, 1986.
Goldsworthy, Andy. A Collaboration with Nature. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.
Gossage, John. The Pond. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1985.
Groebli, Rene. Magie der Schiene. Zurich: Kubus Verlag, 1949. The Magic of the Tracks.
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
Heaney, Seamus. "The Sense of Place." In Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980.
------. Sweeney’s Flight, with photographs by Rachel Giese. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
Hockney, David. Hockney on Photography. New York: Harmony Books, 1988.
Hood, Walter. Urban Diaries. Washington, DC: Spacemaker Press, 1997.
Horn, Roni. To Place(multiple volumes on Iceland published by various presses, 1990-2001).
------. Another Water (The River Thames, for example). Steidl, 2000.
Hoskins, W.G. The Making of the English Landscape. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1970.
Hosoe, Eikoh. Kamaitachi. Tokyo: Gendaischicho-sha, 1969.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. The Essential Landscape: The New Mexico Photographic Survey. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
------. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.
------. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
------. Landscape in Sight: Looking at America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
Jussim, Estelle, and Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock. Landscape as Photograph. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Kepes, Gyorgy. Language of Vision. Chicago, IL: Paul Theobald, 1944.
Klett, Mark, Rebecca Solnit, and Byron White. Yosemite in Time. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1992.
Klett, Mark. Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1967.
------, and Taylor, Paul S. American Exodus. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939.
------, and Taylor, Paul S. American Exodus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. Saudades do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir. University of Washington Press, 1995.
Lynch, David K., and Livingston, William. Color and Light in Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Lynch, Kevin. Image of the City. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 1960.
------. What Time Is This Place? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1972.
Lyons, Nathan. Notations in Passing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974.
MacLean, Alex. Designs on the Land: Exploring America from the Air (Thames and Hudson, 2003)
Maynard, Patrick. Thinking through Photography. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Meinig, D.W., ed. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Meiselas, Susan. Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979 (Aperture, 1981).
Meyerowitz, Joel. Cape Light. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1985.
------. St. Louis and the Arch. Boston: Little, Brown (New York Graphic Society), 1980.
------. La natura delle città. Motta Editore, 1994.
Minnaert, M. G. J. Light and Color in the Outdoors. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1974.
Misrach, Richard. Golden Gate . New York: Aperture Foundation, 2004.
Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.
Morris, Wright. Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory. New York: Aperture, 1989.
------. The Inhabitants. New York: Scribner’s, 1946.
Morrison, Philip, Morrison, Phylis, and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Powers of Ten. New York: Scientific American Books, 1982.
Owens, Bill. Suburbia. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973.
Pfahl, John. A Distanced Land. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990.
Potteiger, Matthew, and Jamie Purinton. Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories. New York: John Wiley, 1998.
Rowell, Galen. Mountain Light. Sierra Club, 1986.
Shore, Stephen. Uncommon Places. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1982.
Siskind, Aaron. Harlem Photographs 1932-1940. Introduction by Gordon Parks. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1990.
Smith, Eugene W., and Aileen M. Smith. Minamata. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975.
Smith, Kevin. Structure of the Visual Book. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, 1984.
Smithson, Robert. Photo Works. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
Sommer, Frederick. “1939-1962 Photographs,” Aperture 10:4 (1962).
Soth, Alec. Sleeping by the Mississippi. Steidl, 2004.
------. Niagara. Steidl, 2006.
Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
------. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Sternfeld, Joel. American Prospects. New York: Times Books, 1987.
Storaro, Vittorio. Writing with Light. Part One: The Light. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 2003.
Strand, Paul, and Nancy Newhall. Time in New England. Millerton, NY: 1980; original edition, 1950.
------, and Claude Roy. La France de Profil. Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1952. A Profile of France.
------, and Basil Davidson. Tir a Mhurain: Outer Hebrides. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1962.
Swirnoff, Lois. The Color of Cities. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Szarkowski, John. Looking at Photographs. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
------. American Landscapes. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
------. Atget. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2000.
Thomas, Ann, ed. Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Tice, George. Paterson. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1972.
Trager, Philip. Changing Paris. Arena, 2000.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Topophilia. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
------. Space and Place. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
Vanderbilt, Paul. Between the Landscape and Its Other. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1993.
Vergara, Camilo Jose. The New American Ghetto. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Vergara, Camilo Jose. American Ruins. New York: Monacelli Press, 1999.
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
Ward, Alan. American Designed Landscapes. Washington, DC: Spacemaker Press, 1998.
Weifenbach, Terri. In Your Dreams. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 1997.
Welty, Eudora. One Time One Place: Mississippi in the Depression. University Press of Mississippi, 1996 (reprint).
Westerbeck, Colin, and Joel Meyerowitz. Bystander: A History of Street Photography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.
White, Minor. Mirrors Messages Manifestation. New York: Aperture, 1969.
------. Light 7: Photographs from an Exhibition on a Theme. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1968.