We here on APUG have a tendency to obsess over the technical. This is entirely understandable - the Internet as a discussion forum lends itself very nicely to technical discussions, because technical discussions deal in ideas that are precise, measurable and demonstrable. Conversations about ideas, though, are hard enough to have in person, let alone on an impersonal medium like a web chat forum. I'd like to encourage the attempt.
In that regard, what theoretical/analytic/critical books on photography have you read lately? Examples - Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, On Photography by Susan Sontag. I don't want to limit this conversation by bookending it (so to speak) with these two classic texts, or to suggest that they form the only structure of understanding what it is we do, why we do it, and how photography constructs meaning. And if anyone has their own thoughts on the subject, I have zero objections to articulating it without the context of a specific book.
In that regard, what theoretical/analytic/critical books on photography have you read lately? Examples - Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, On Photography by Susan Sontag. I don't want to limit this conversation by bookending it (so to speak) with these two classic texts, or to suggest that they form the only structure of understanding what it is we do, why we do it, and how photography constructs meaning. And if anyone has their own thoughts on the subject, I have zero objections to articulating it without the context of a specific book.