Essential Readings for the Photographer

Image by Berenice Abbott. from Berenice Abbott: Changing New York.

Abbott, Berenice and Bonnie Yochelson. 2008. Berenice Abbott: Changing New York. New York, NY: The New Press.
Abell, Sam. 2008. The Life of a Photograph. Washington, DC: National Geographic.

Adams, Ansel. 1983. Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs. Boston: Little, Brown.
Adams, Ansel. 1993. Ansel Adams in Color. Edited by Harry Callahan. Boston, MA: Little Brown.
--------------------. 1974. The New West. Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press.
Adams, Robert. 2005. Why People Photograph. Millerton, NY: Aperture.
--------------------.2005. Beauty in Photography. Millerton, NY: Aperture.
--------------------. 1974. The New West. Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press.

Adcock, Craig. 1990. James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Agee, James, and Walker Evans. 1941. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Appleton, Jay. 1975. The Experience of Landscape. London: John Wiley and Sons.
Arnheim, Rudolf. 1969/2004. Visual Thinking: 35th Anniversary Printing. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Badger, Gerry & Gossage, John. 2005. The Pond. Millerton, NY: Aperture.
Barthes, Roland. 1975. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. New York: Hill and Wang.
Bayles, David & Ted Orland. 1993/2010. Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Art Making. Image Conitnuum Press. (Kindle)
Beahan, Virginia, and McPhee, Laura. 2005. No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Landscape. New York: Aperture.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph. - Walter Benjamin

Benjamin, Walter. 2008. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University.

Berger, John. 1990. Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin Books.
---------------. 1980. About Looking. New York: Pantheon Books. (Kindle)
---------------. 1985. Sense of Sight. New York: Random House.
Berger John and Mohr, Jean. 1982. Another Way of Telling. New York: Pantheon. (Kindle)
Berger, John, David Levi Strauss and Diana Stoll. 2005. Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics. New York, NY: Aperture.
Bernhard, Ruth. 2011. Ruth Bernhard: The Eternal Body: A Collection of Fifty Nudes. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books.

"Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends". Ruth Bernhard 

Bravo, Manuel Álvarez, Colette Alvarez Urbajtel, John Banville, Jean-Claude Lemagny. 2008. Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photopoetry. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books.

From  Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photopoetry.

Bye, A.E. 1983. Art into Landscape; Landscape into Art. Mesa, AZ: PDA Publishers.
Caponigro, Paul. 1981 Paul Caponigro. New York: Photography Gallery.
-------------------. 1994. The Voice of Print. New York: Muse Press.
-------------------. 1975. Landscapes. New York: McGraw Hill.

Image by Henri Cartier-Bresson, from The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photographs and Photographers

Cartier-Bresson, Henri. 1952. The Decisive Moment. New York: Simon and Schuster.
---------------------------. 1999. The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photographs and Photographers. New York: Aperture.
---------------------------. 1998. Europeans. Boston: Little, Brown.
Collier, John Jr., and Malcolm Collier. 1986. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
Corner, James, and Alex S. MacLean. 1996. Taking Measures Across the American Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Cosgrove, Denis and Stephen Daniels (Eds). 1988. The Iconography of Landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
DeCarava, Roy, and Langston Hughes. 1967 /1955. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. New York: Hill and Wang.

Helen Douglas. from Unravelling the Ripple

Douglas, Helen. 2001. Unravelling the Ripple. Edinburgh: Morningstar
Evans, Terry. 1998. Disarming the Prairie: Creating the North American Landscape. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Evans, Walker. 2011. Walker Evans: American Photographs. New York, NY: Errata.
------------------. 2004. Many Are Called. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
------------------. 2001. Cuba. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Ferrer, Elizabeth. 2006. Lola Alvarez Bravo. New York, NY: Aperture.

Lola Alvarez Bravo. Burial in Yalalag, Oaxacz, Mexico, 1946

I look for the essence of beings and of things, their spirit, their reality. Interest, experience, moral and aesthetic commitment, form the third eye of the photographer. There are those who focus on the landscape; I feel attracted to human beings.  - Lola Alvarez Bravo

Frank Robert. 2008. The Americans. New York: Steidl.
Friedlander, Lee. 1982. Factory Valleys: Ohio and Pennsylvania. New York: Callaway.
Fuchs, R.H. 1986. Richard Long. New York: Thames and Hudson.
Gerster, Georg. 1986. Below from Above: Aerial Photography. New York: Abbeville.
Goldsworthy, Andy. 1990. A Collaboration with Nature. New York: Harry N. Abrams.
Heaney, Seamus. 1980. "The Sense of Place." In Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
---------------------. 1992. Sweeney’s Flight, with photographs by Rachel Giese. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Hall, James Bake and Minor White. 2005. Minor White: Rites and Passages. Millerton, NY: Aperture.
Hockney, David. 1988. Hockney on Photography. New York: Harmony Books.

From Hockney on Photography.

Hood, Walter and Leah Levy. 1997. Urban Diaries. Washington, DC: Spacemaker Press.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. 1985. The Essential Landscape: The New Mexico Photographic Survey. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
--------------------------------. 1986. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
--------------------------------. 1996. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
--------------------------------. 2000. Landscape in Sight: Looking at America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Jussim, Estelle, and Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock. 1985. Landscape as Photograph. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Kepes, Gyorgy. 1995. Language of Vision.New York: Dover.
Klett, Mark, Rebecca Solnit, and Byron White. 1992. Yosemite in Time: Ice Age, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers.  San Antonio: Trinity University Press.
Klett, Mark. 1992. Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Lange, Dorothea. 1967. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum.

Dorothea Lange image from An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion.

This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate. - Dorothea Lange 

--------------------, and Taylor, Paul S. 2002. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York: Jean Michel Place.
Levi-Strauss, Claude and Sylvia Modelski. 1995. Saudades do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir. University of Washington Press.
Loori, John Daido. 2007. The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. (Kindle).
Lynch, Kevin. 1960. Image of the City. Boston, MA: MIT Press.
----------------. 1972. What Time Is This Place? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lyons, Nathan. 1974. Notations in Passing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
MacLean, Alex. 2003. Designs on the Land: Exploring America from the Air. Thames and Hudson. 

Image by Alen MacWeeney. from Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More.

MacWeeney, Alen. 2007. Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More. Henniker, NH: New England College Press.
Maynard, Patrick. 1997. The Engine of Visualization: Thinking through Photography. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
Meinig, D.W., ed. 1979. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bay/Sky by Joel Meyerowitz

Meyerowitz, Joel. 2009. Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks. New York, NY: Aperture.
--------------------. 2002. Cape Light: Color Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz. New York, NY: Bullfinch.
---------------------. 1993. Bay/Sky. New York, NY: Bullfinch.

Richard Misrach: Golden Gate

Misrach, Richard. 2012. Richard Misrach: Golden Gate. New York: Aperture Foundation.
Mitchell, William J. 1992. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Morris, Wright. 1999. Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory. New York: Aperture.
------------------. 1972. The Inhabitants. New York: DeCapo.
Morrison, Philip, Morrison, Phylis, and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. 1994. Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe. New York: Scientific American Books.
Owens, Bill. 1999. Suburbia. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books.
Papageorge, Tod. 2011. Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography. New York, NY: Aperture.
Pfahl, John. 1990. A Distanced Land. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Potteiger, Matthew, and Jamie Purinton. 1998. Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories. New York: John Wiley.

Image by Aaron Siskind from Harlem Photographs 1932-1940.

Siskind, Aaron. 1990. Harlem Photographs 1932-1940. Introduction by Gordon Parks. Washington, DC: Smithsonian.
Smith, Eugene W., and Aileen M. Smith. 1975. Minamata. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
Smith, Kevin. 2003. Structure of the Visual Book. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop.
Sontag, Susan. 2001. On Photography. New York, NY: Picador.
Soth, Alec. 2004. Sleeping by the Mississippi. Steidl.
-------------. 2006. Niagara. Steidl.
Spirn, Anne Whiston. 2009. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Stafford, William & Robert Adams. 1994. Listening to the River: Seasons in the American West. Millerton, NY: Aperture.
Swirnoff, Lois. 2000. The Color of Cities. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Szarkowski, John. 1973. Looking at Photographs. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
--------------------. 2004. Atget. New York: Museum of Modern Art.Thomas, Ann, ed. 1997. Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science. New Haven: Yale University Press.
---------------------. 2007. The Photographer's Eye.  New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art.
Tice, George. 2006. Paterson II. Quantuck Lane Press.
---------------. 2002. Urban Landscapes. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
---------------. 1972. Paterson. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Image by Paul Strand. from Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs.

Tomkins, Calvin and Paul Strand.  2009. Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs. New York, NY: Aperture.
Trager, Philip. 2000. Changing Paris: A Tour Along the Seine. Arena.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. 2011. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Kindle).
--------------. 1974. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (Kindle).
Vanderbilt, Paul. 1993. Between the Landscape and Its Other. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins.

Camilo Jose Vergara. from American Ruins (Camden, NJ).

Vergara, Camilo Jose. 1995. The New American Ghetto. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
--------------------------. 2003. American Ruins. New York: Monacelli Press.
Wallis, Claire. 2009. Richard Long: Heaven and Earth. London: Tate Publishing.

From Richard Long: Heaven and Earth.

Ward, Alan. 2006. American Designed Landscapes. Washington, DC: Spacemaker Press.
Weifenbach, Terri. 1997. In Your Dreams. Portland, OR: Nazraeli.
Welty, Eudora. 1996. One Time One Place: Mississippi in the Depression. University Press of Mississippi.

Westerbeck, Colin, and Joel Meyerowitz. 2001. Bystander: A History of Street Photography. New York, NY: Bulfinch.
White, Minor. 1969. Mirrors Messages Manifestations. New York: Aperture.
----------------. 1968. Light 7: Photographs from an Exhibition on a Theme. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Yochelson, Bonnie. 2010. Alfred Stieglitz: New York.  Skira Rizzoli.

Narrative Practices: telling/untelling/(re)telling

John Berger, from  Another Way of Telling

Early Morning on the Hudson (MA Reilly, 2009)

Snow is Falling (M.A. Reilly, 2011)

Night Coming On (M.A. Reilly, 2011)

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Suburbia (M.A. Reilly, 2011)

Certainty. (M.A. Reilly, 2011)

Night (M.A. Reilly, 2008)

Sudden Rain (M.A. Reilly, 2011)

Recommended Practices for Adolescent ELA Programs

The Fifteen Elements of Effective Adolescent Literacy Programs (Reading Next, 2006) & 11 Elements for Effective Writing Programs (Writing Next, 2007)

These recommendations are taken from two reports: Reading Next and Writing Next.  I have attached a few recommended practices associated with each of the elements.  This list is incomplete.

I.               Instructional Improvements

Elements	Recommended Practice(s)
1.    Direct, explicit comprehension instruction, which is instruction in the strategies and processes that proficient readers use to understand what they read, including summarizing, keeping track of one’s own understanding, and a host of other practices	Questioning the Author Reciprocal Teaching Reading Apprenticeship ArtsLiteracy Handbook (Performance based methods) Summarizing Strategy UDL Classroom ToolKit Learner.org Videos: Making Meaning in Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8 Apps for Literacy Support (Greg O’Connor)
2.    Effective instructional principles embedded in content, including language arts teachers using content-area texts and content-area teachers providing instruction and practice in reading and writing skills specific to their subject area	Dialogic Notebook Strategic Instruction Model UDL Classroom ToolKit Learner.org video Connect with the Arts: A Workshop for Middle Grade Teachers Alexandria City Literacy Framework  Vocabulary and Adolescents Slideshare
3.    Motivation and self-directed learning, which includes building motivation to read and learn and providing students with the instruction and supports needed for independent learning tasks they will face after graduation	Scoop it: Adolescent Literacies (independent reading recommendations) Video Series from Learner.org: Reading 3-5 Workshop; Teaching Multicultural Literature: A Workshop for the Middle Grades; Making Meaning in Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8 UDL Classroom ToolKit  Game Playing
4.    Text-based collaborative learning, which involves students interacting with one another around a variety of texts	UDL Classroom ToolKit  ArtsLiteracy
5.    Strategic tutoring, which provides students with intense individualized reading, writing, and content instruction as needed	Assistive Technologies: Cast Strategy TutorAccessibility in your browser FireFox with Accessibility A collection of free accessibility add-ons available from Firefox. FoxVox and CLiCk-Speak are great. Accessibility on the PCs with MS Office WordTalk,  Balaboka, or Windows Speech Recognition Accessibility with mobiles VLingo (Android - free, BlackBerry - cheap) Dragon (iOS - free) on handhelds or tablets. UDL Classroom ToolKit Improving Adolescent Literacy: Interventions (Report/Sideshare)
6.    Diverse texts, which are texts at a variety of difficulty levels and on a variety of topics	Scoop it: Adolescent Literacies
7.    Intensive writing, including instruction connected to the kinds of writing tasks students will have to perform well in high school and beyond	Self Regulated Writing Strategy Summarizing Strategy Technologies that can help to facilitate collaborative writing on-line: Google Docs, MixedInk, Protagonized, Glypho, Writeboard, TitanPad, Sync.in, Sean Nash’s Collaborative Writing SlideShare Video Series from Learner.org: Inside Writing, Grades 3-5; Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers Sentence Combining Lewis & Wray’s (1995) Writing Frames Web 2.0 Composing: Composing apps Ideapaint SketchBookPro UDL Classroom ToolKit CAST
7a. Writing Strategies, which involves teaching students strategies for planning, revising, and editing their compositions
7b. Summarization, which involves explicitly and systematically teaching students how to summarize texts
7c. Collaborative Writing, which uses instructional arrangements in which adolescents work together to plan, draft, revise, and edit their compositions
7d. Specific Product Goals, which assigns students specific, reachable goals for the writing they
7e. Word Processing, which uses computers and word processors as instructional supports for writing assignments
7f. Sentence Combining, which involves teaching students to construct more complex, sophisticated sentences
7g. Prewriting, which engages students in activities designed to help them generate or organize ideas for their composition
7h. Inquiry Activities, which engages students in analyzing immediate, concrete data to help them develop ideas and content for a particular writing task
7i. Process Writing Approach, which interweaves a number of writing instructional activities in a workshop environment that stresses extended writing opportunities, writing for authentic audiences, personalized instruction, and cycles of writing
7j. Study of Models, which provides students with opportunities to read, analyze, and emulate models of good writing
7k. Writing for Content Learning, which uses writing as a tool for learning content material
8.    A technology component, which includes technology as a tool for and a topic of literacy instruction	Embedded. New Literacies Page from this Blog  Edutopia TechMatrix: Reading, Writing, PD NCREL Essential Elements of Digital Literacies  How Does Reading Change on the Internet? Fields of Creation    Critical Literacies Online Tools
9.    Ongoing formative assessment of students, which is informal, often daily assessment of how students are progressing under current instructional practices	SEDL assessment matrix Cloze Reading Assessment Assessing Reading Fluency (Tim Rasinski) SRI Interactive National School Reform Faculty: Protocols, Reflection sheets, etc.  UConn's Assessment in Literacy

II Infrastructure Improvements

10. Extended time for literacy, which includes approximately two to four hours of literacy instruction and practice that takes place in language arts and content-area classes

11. Professional development that is both long term and ongoing

12. Ongoing summative assessment of students and programs, which is more formal and provides data that are reported for accountability and research purposes

13. Teacher teams, which are interdisciplinary teams that meet regularly to discuss students and align instruction

14. Leadership, which can come from principals and teachers who have a solid understanding of how to teach reading and writing to the full array of students present in schools

15. A comprehensive and coordinated literacy program, which is interdisciplinary and interdepartmental and may even coordinate with out-of-school organizations and the local community