First Reflections Photography Lesson - Notes (In development)



Nicéphore Niépce's earliest surviving camera photograph, circa 1826: View from the Window at Le Gras (Saint-Loup-de-VarennesFrance)


  • William Henry Fox Talbot (1844)
  • Louis Daguerre 1848 (1848)
  • Photography and the industrial revolution
  • Forensic quality of photography
  • San Francisco Earthquake 1906 Arnold Genthe
  • August Sander (1920s)
  • History of photography. 1950s smaller cameras - becomes more available to people
  • Penny Slinger - An Exorcism
  • Jo Spence
  • Cindy Sherman
  • Roland Barthes Camera Lucida
  • Fills in memories, or the photos itself creates the memories
  • Susan Sontag - On photography (1979)
  • Paul Edwards - Against the Photograph as Memento Mori - in history of photography vol 22 no 4 Winter 98
  • Katherine keenan - On the relationship between personal photographs and individual memory in history of photography vol 22 no 4 Spring 98
  • John Berger - Ways of remembering (published in Camerawork, Issue 10)
  • David Campany
  • John Baldessari
  • Sophie Calle
  • Max Dean
  • Annette Messager
  • Gerhard Richter
  • Matthias Wahner