George Dillon

A404 Padelford

Bibliography for Images


(almost all of these are available in the Art Library)


Ades, Dawn. Photomontage, rev. and enlarged edition. Thames and Hudson, 1996.


Barthes, Roland. "The Photographic Image" and "The Rheteoric of the Image," in Image, Music, Text, trans. Stephen Heath. Hill and Wang, 1977, pp 15-51.

______, Camera Lucida, trans. Richard Howard. Hill and Wang, 1981.

Bal, Mieke. "Reading the Gaze: The Construction of Gender in 'Rembrandt'." in Melville and Readings, pp. 147-73.

Bertin, Jacques. The Semiology of Graphics.

Bolton, Richard, ed. The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography. MIT Press, 1989.

Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. "From Faktura to Factography," in Bolton, pp. 49-85.>

Burgin, Victor, ed. Thinking Photography. Macmillan, 1982.


Drucker, Johanna. The Visible Word. University of Chicago Press, 1994.

______, Theorizing Modernism, Columbia University Press, 1994.

______, "The Art of the Written Image." in The Dual Muse. Washington University Gallery of Art, 1997, pp. 83-126


Hapkemeyer, Andreas and Peter Weiermair, eds. Photo text text photo: the synthesis of Photography and Text in Contemporary Art. Edition Stemmle. 1997.

Holly, Michael Ann. "Past Looking," in Melville and Readings, pp. 67-89.


Jay, Martin. "Photo-unrealism." in Melville and Readings, pp. 344-60.


Krauss, Rosemary. "A Note on Photography and the Simulacral," in Squiers, pp. 15-27. also in Squiers (1999):169-82.


Lister, Mark. "Photography in the Age of Electronic Imaging." in Wells, pp. 199-248.

____, ed. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture. Routledge, 1997.


Melville, Stephen and Bill Readings, ed. Vision and Textuality. Duke, 1995.

Messaris, Paul. Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in Advertising. Sage, 1997.

_______, Visual 'Literacy' , 1994.

Miller, Jonathan. On Reflection. National Gallery Publications, 1998.


Pollack, Griselda. "Missing Women: Rethinking Early Thoughts on Images of Women." in Squiers, pp. 202-219.Also in Squiers(1999):229-246.

______, "Beholding Art History: Vision, Place, and Power." in Melville and Readings, pp. 38-66.

Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document. SFMOMA, 1995.


Robins, Kevin. "Will Images Move Us Still?" in Lister.

Rosler, Martha. "In, around, and afterthoughts (on documentary photography). "In Bolton, pp. 303-342.


Silverman, Kaja. The Threshold of the Visible World. Routledge, 1996.

Solomon-Godeau, "Living with Contradiction: Critical Practices in the Age of Supply-Side Aesthetics." in Squiers, pp. 59-79. and Squiers (1999):247-68

Squiers, Carol, ed. The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography. Bay Press, 1990.

Squiers, Carol, ed. OverExposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography. The New Press, 1999.

______, "The Corporate Year in Pictures." in Bolton, pp. 207-220.


Tagg, John. "A Discourse (With the Shape of Reason Missing)." in Melville and Readings, pp. 90-114.

Tufte, Edward. Visual Explanations. Graphics Press, 1997.


Walker, Ian. "Desert Stones or Faith in Facts." in Lister.

Wells, Liz, ed. Photography: a Critical Introduction. Routledge, 1997.

more on conceptualism
Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, Alexander Alberro and Blake Stinson, eds., MIT 1999

Global Conceptualism: points of origin, 1950s-1980s, foreword by Luis Camnitzen, Jane Farves, and Rachel Weiss, New York: Queens Museum of Art



two websites by me:

faculty.washington.edu/dillon/rhethtml/dadamaps/dadamapspmcx.html

faculty.washington.edu/dillon/rhethtml/signifiers/signifiers.html


and by others:

www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/gaze

list of art sites:

courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl569/artlinx.html