Readings for 9/7

Part II: Photography
September 7
Theory and Background

Susan Sontag, On Photography (New York: Picador, 1973), pp. 3-82.

Stefanie Harris, “Rilke, Photography, and the City,” New German Critique, No. 99, (Fall,
2006), pp. 121-149

Eric Gordon, Chapter 1: “More Than the Sum of its Parts: The White City and Amateur
Photography,” in The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities From Kodak to Google
(Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2010), pp. 21-42.

Suggested background reading: Peter Bacon Hales, Silver Cities: The Photography of
American Urbanization, 1839-1915 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984).