Adams, R., 1996. Beauty in Photography. New York: Aperture.
Angier, R., 2007. Train Your Gaze – A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography. Lausanne: AVA Publishing.
Bate, D., 2009. Photography the Key Concepts. Oxford: Berg.
In his book David describes the place of Photography in our society looking at the extraordinary range of genres. He starts by discussing the history of photography and theory of its social use looking at landscape, portraiture, documentary and still life. David highlights how photography has reshaped the real, confirmed identities, communicates concepts and how it is now the accessible art media. He points out that over two millenniums of photography have cemented into our everyday life by the birth of digital imagery and manipulation.
Cotton, C., 2000. Imperfect Beauty – The Making of Contemporary Fashion Photographs. London: V&A Publications.
Doy, G., 2007. Claude Cahun - A Sensual Politics of Photography. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
In this delightful book Doy discusses Claude Cahun’s use of dress and masquerade to explore aspects of her life including lesbianism and politics. This analysis was in the context of women in the early twentieth century.
Ewing, W A., 2006. Face – The New Photographic Portrait. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.
Ewing, W A., 2000. The Century of the Body. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.
Garcia, E C., 2010. Photography as Fiction. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Erin C. Garcia was an assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. This book discusses how Photography is commonly associated with fact and recording truth. She conversely demonstrates, through a collection of images produced by artists including Juila Margaret Cameron, Alfred Steiglitz, Man Ray and Yasumasa Morimura, how photography has been a medium for fiction. She highlights key debates on the contradiction between Photography’s factuality and capacity to depict imaginary subjects. The collection of images illustrate the use of costume, stage sets and storytelling narratives.
Knight, N., 2009, Nick Knight. New York: Harper Collins.
Newton, K. and Rolph, C., 2003. Masquerade: Women’s Contemporary Portrait Photography. Cardiff: Ffotogallery.
This book looks at what defines the genre boundaries within portraiture. It demonstrates this through a collection of images from female photographers and is juxtaposed with written pieces to provide a context for the work offering critical debate.
Wells, L., 2003. The Photography Reader. Oxon: Routledge.
Williamson, J., 1978. Decoding Advertisements. London: Marion Boyars.
This book analyses the psychological elements used in advertising and in particular the chapter on ‘the Mirror Phase’ interested me as it discusses how we produce a fictional self.
I09, 2011. Computer Science. [online] Available at: <http://io9.com/5863711/researchers-quantify-just-how-badly-your-favorite-celebrity-is-photoshopped> [accessed 27 December 2011]
This article discusses the proposal of technology to codify how heavily an image has been manipulated in Photoshop. This proposal is in the context of Advertising imagery of celebrities and models. Such technology would be able to discern to what extent an image had been manipulated ranging from hair and spot removal, wrinkle removing and skin softening right through to severe body sculpting and morphing. The results of this kind of image assessment would enable a viewer to be inform on a rating of 1 – 5 how much the image had been manipulated in Photoshop. This would though mean that advertisers would have to engage with this process and submit original images with manipulated for analysis.
Lifestyle, 2011. Famous. [online] Available at: http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/famous/galleries/photo/-/10490818/celebrity-photoshop-blunders/10490822/ [accessed 27 December 2011]
This site illustrates the celebrity Photoshop blunders that have been publicised. One image that stood out to me in particular was a cover shoot for Harpers Bazaar magazine featuring ‘Beyonce’. This site presents the cover image juxtaposed with an original non-manipulated image from the same photo shoot. It clearly demonstrates the extend of body morphing which has taken place presenting a very sculpted and perfect ‘Beyonce’.
Astopix, 2006. The Ethics of Digital Manipulation. [online] Available at http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/ETHICS.HTM. [accessed 27 December 2011]
This site presented a very interesting article on the ethics of digital manipulation but this was in the context of natural history photography. It presents two images of the Lagoon Nebula and shows how the colour has been changed on the second. This then presents the criticism of how photography’s purpose in recording nature is to be one of the most realistic art media.
Cindysherman.com, 2004. Biography. [online] Available at <http://www.cindysherman.com/biography.shtml> [accessed 12 January 2012]
Huffington Post, 2011. Annie Leibovitz latest Disney Ad Campaign. [online] Available at <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/annie-leibovitz-disney_n_831080.html?view=print&comm_ref=false> [accessed 12 January 2012]
The Independent, 2009. The Fabulous World of Nick Knight. [online] Available at:<http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/the-fabulous-world-of-nick-knight-1809790.html> [accessed 7 February 2012]
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