>>3273272The comically big Jeff Wall book pictured here has the best essay I have read on his work to date.
I quite like A Matter of Memory: Photograph as object in the Digital Age
Silent Dialogues is a great book about Diane Arbus and her brother Howard Nemerov written by his son. Its a warts and all look at her, her art, his poetry, and their relationship.
Stan Douglas is by far the most interesting from the Vancouver School
Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is something everyone should read, Benjamin, Barthes, and Sontag are foundations of any arts education in photo.
Francesca Stern Woodman is worth checking out
lots of the others have nice photos
>>3273285Baudrillard gets a little circular after a while but I love his essay on Apocalypse Now, Umberto Eco is jesus fuck, get over yourself and fuck off with the jargon.
Same goes for most of the essays in Faking Death and The Last Picture Show.
I am glad we are finally moving past Pomo
>>3273324Baudrillard is falling out of favor but you will probably run into Eco, and maybe Kitty Scott. But don't worry there are plenty of other painful writers and philosophers you will come across in Uni.
>>3273294I'd agree that some of it is nauseating, some of it is out dated, but it is far from useless
