2. Walter Benjamin, "The Author as Producer", in "Reflections" ed., Hannah Arendt
3. Roland Barthes, "The Rhetoric of the Image", in "Image Music Text"
4. Roland Barthes, "The Photographic Message", in "Image Music Text"
5. Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author" in "Image Music Text"
6. Roland Barthes, "Camera Lucida"
7. Baudrillard, "Simulacra and Simulation"
8. Susan Sontag, "On Photography"
9. Susan Sontag "Regarding the Pain of Others"
10. Vilem Flusser, "Towards a Philosophy of Photography"
11. Michael Fried, "Art and Objecthood"
12. Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias"
13. Martha Rosler, "In, Around, and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography)" in "The Contest of Meaning", ed., Richard Bolton
14. Deborah Bright, "Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry Into the Culture Meanings of Landscape Photography", in "The Contest of Meaning", ed., Richard Bolton
15. Allan Sekula, "The Body and the Archive" in "The Contest of Meaning", ed., Richard Bolton (also in October, Winter 1986)
16. Allan Sekula, "Reading an Archive" from "Blasted Allegories", ed., Brian Wallis
17. Christopher Phillips, " The Judgment Seat of Photography" in "The Contest of Meaning", ed., Richard Bolton
18. Walter Benjamin, "A Short History of Photography", in "Classic Essays on Photography", ed., Alan Trachtenberg
19. Andre Bazin, "The Ontology of the Photographic Image", in "Classic Essays on Photography", ed., Alan Trachtenberg
20. Siegfried Kracauer, "Photography" in "Classic Essays on Photography", ed., Alan Trachtenberg
21. Hubert Damisch, "Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image" in "Classic Essays on Photography", ed., Alan Trachtenberg
22. Craig Owens, "Photography En Abyme", in "Beyond Recognition"
23. Craig Owens, "The Discourse of Others: Feminism and Postmodernism", in "Beyond Recognition"
24. Douglas Crimp, "Pictures" October, Volume 8, 1979, also in "Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation", ed., Brian Wallis
25. John Szarkowski, "Mirrors and Windows"
26. Rosalind Krauss, "Notes on the Index: Part 1 and Part 2" in "The Originality of the Avant - Garde and other Modernist Myths"
27. Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" in "Visual and Other Pleasures"