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history and criticism of photography:
historical sources, 19th–20th century:
- A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat
- The American Image: Panoramic Photographs I
- Picturing Paradise: Colonial Photography of Samoa, 1875-1925
- Memento Mori, by Dan Meinwald
- Fixing Shadows: a site concerned with straight photography
- The Social Construction of the American Daguerreotype Portrait
- Helios: the photography archives of the National Museum of American Art
- Library of Congress: photography collection on-line
criticism and ontology of photography:
- Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
- The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
- from silver to silicon (thoughts on Susan Sontag)
- Memories, Love and Images
- Notes on Roland Barthes
- Reframing the Family Photograph
- nothingness.org
- Situationist International






