Week 1
-Introduction
Week 2
-Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, “Daguerreotype”
-Joseph Nicephore Niepce, “Memoire on the Heliograph”
-William Henry Fox Talbot, “A Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art”
-Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, “Photography”
Week 3
-Siegfried Kracauer, “Photography” in The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
-Siegfried Kracauer, “Photography” in Theory of Film: The Redemption of Reality
Week 4
-Walter Benjamin, “A Little History of Photography”
-Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Week 5
-Charles S. Peirce, “Signs”
-Roger Scruton, “Photography and Representation”
-Kendall Walton, “Transparent Pictures”
Week 6
-Andre Bazin, “The Ontology of the Photograph”
-Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (sections 1~4, 6~7, 14~15)
Week 7
-Joel Snyder and Neil Walsh Allen, “Photography, Vision, and Representation”
-Joel Snyder, “What Happens By Itself in Photography?”
-Diarmuid Costello, “One: Foundational intuitions and folk theory” On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry
Week 8
-Diarmuid Costello, “Two: Aesthetic skepticism and its critics” and “Three: Transparency and its critics” in On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry
Week 9
-Roland Barthes, “Rhetoric of the Image”
-Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Week 10
-Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
-Michael Fried, “Barthes’s Punctum”
-James Elkins, “Critical Response: What Do We Want Photography to Be? A Response to Michael Fried”
Week 11
-Michael Fried, “Art and Objecthood”
-Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality
-Michael Fried, “Three Beginnings,” “Conclusion” in Why Photography Matters as an Art as Never Before
Week 12
-Susan Sontag, “In Plato’s Cave,” On Photography
-Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects,” On Photography
-Susan Sontag, “The Image-World,” On Photography
Week 13
-Vilem Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
-Diarmuid Costello, “Conclusion” in On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry
Week 14
-Rosalind Krauss, “Photography’s Discursive Spaces”
-Rosalind Krauss, “Notes on the Index I”
-Rosalind Krauss, “Notes on the Index II”
Week 15
-Tom Gunning, “To Scan a Ghost: The Ontology of Mediated Vision”
-Tom Gunning, “What’s the Point of an Index? or, Faking Photographs”