For archival purposes I am publishing my reading list for spring 08. If you are curious about any of these books I have most of them and could give you feedback before you decide to check them out or make purchases.
Adams, Robert. Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values
Atkins, Robert. Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections of Photography
Batchen, Geoffrey. Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance
Bayles, David, Orland, Ted. Art & Fear, Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing
Caffery, Debbie Fleming. The Shadows
Carter, Keith. Photographs: Twenty-Five Years
Csikzentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow
Dyer, Geoff. The Ongoing Moment
Ewald, Wendy. The Best Part of Me: Children Talk About Their Bodies in Pictures and Words
Ewald, Wendy. Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Girlhood from stories told by Alicia and Maria Vasquez
Ewald, Wendy. Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and stories by children of the Appalachians
Ewald, Wendy. Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children 1969-1999
Fabozzi, Paul F. Artists, Critics, Context Readings in and around American Art Since 1945
Feinstein, Gloria Baker. Convergence
Flemming, Peggy. In Her Place: Inner Views and Outer Spaces
Foster, Hal. The Anti-Aesthetic, Essays on Postmodern Culture
Jensen, Brooks. Single Exposures: Random Observations on Photography, Art & Creativity
Hirsch, Marianne. The Familial Gaze
Kuhn, Annette. Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination
Leibovitz, Annie. Women
MacCannell, Dean. The Tourist
Mann, Sally. At Twelve
Mann, Sally. Immediate Family
Meeks, Raymond. Sound of Summer Running
Pinney, Melissa. Regarding Emma
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
Sontag, Susan. On Photography
Adams, Robert. Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values
Atkins, Robert. Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections of Photography
Batchen, Geoffrey. Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance
Bayles, David, Orland, Ted. Art & Fear, Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing
Caffery, Debbie Fleming. The Shadows
Carter, Keith. Photographs: Twenty-Five Years
Csikzentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow
Dyer, Geoff. The Ongoing Moment
Ewald, Wendy. The Best Part of Me: Children Talk About Their Bodies in Pictures and Words
Ewald, Wendy. Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Girlhood from stories told by Alicia and Maria Vasquez
Ewald, Wendy. Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and stories by children of the Appalachians
Ewald, Wendy. Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children 1969-1999
Fabozzi, Paul F. Artists, Critics, Context Readings in and around American Art Since 1945
Feinstein, Gloria Baker. Convergence
Flemming, Peggy. In Her Place: Inner Views and Outer Spaces
Foster, Hal. The Anti-Aesthetic, Essays on Postmodern Culture
Jensen, Brooks. Single Exposures: Random Observations on Photography, Art & Creativity
Hirsch, Marianne. The Familial Gaze
Kuhn, Annette. Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination
Leibovitz, Annie. Women
MacCannell, Dean. The Tourist
Mann, Sally. At Twelve
Mann, Sally. Immediate Family
Meeks, Raymond. Sound of Summer Running
Pinney, Melissa. Regarding Emma
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
Sontag, Susan. On Photography