For archival purposes I am publishing my reading list for fall 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.
Flesh & Blood: Photographers' Images of Their Own Families by Ann Beattie
The Contest of Meaning by Richard Bolton
Art Photography Now by Susan Bright
So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin,
SallyMann, and Larry Sultan by Katherine A. Bussard
Anna Gaskell by Bonnie Clearwater
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
Anna Gaskell - Half Life by Matthew Drutt
The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing by James Elkins
Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective by Trevor Fairborther
Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Gregory Crewdson 1985-2005 by Martin Hochleiter
The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James
The Photography Book by Ian Jeffery
Anna Gaskell by Thom Jones
Basic Critical Theory for Photographers by Ashley la Grange
Photography Reborn: Image Making in the Digital Era by Jonathan Lipkin
Deep South by Sally Mann
The Sound of Summer Running by Raymond Meeks
Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector by John Minahan
Treadwell by Andrea Modica
Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner by Vivian Gussin Paley
Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault
Flesh & Blood: Photographers' Images of Their Own Families by Ann Beattie
The Contest of Meaning by Richard Bolton
Art Photography Now by Susan Bright
So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin,
SallyMann, and Larry Sultan by Katherine A. Bussard
Anna Gaskell by Bonnie Clearwater
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
Anna Gaskell - Half Life by Matthew Drutt
The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing by James Elkins
Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective by Trevor Fairborther
Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Gregory Crewdson 1985-2005 by Martin Hochleiter
The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James
The Photography Book by Ian Jeffery
Anna Gaskell by Thom Jones
Basic Critical Theory for Photographers by Ashley la Grange
Photography Reborn: Image Making in the Digital Era by Jonathan Lipkin
Deep South by Sally Mann
The Sound of Summer Running by Raymond Meeks
Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector by John Minahan
Treadwell by Andrea Modica
Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner by Vivian Gussin Paley
Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault