Photographic literacy : cameras in the hands of Russian authors / Katherine M.H. Reischl. by Reischl, Katherine M. H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : chasing Pushkin's photograph -- Tolstoy in the age of his technological reproducibility -- The diffusion of domesticated photography : Leonid Andreev, Vasily Rozanov, and Maximillian Voloshin -- Micro-geography, macro-world : Mikhail Prishvin -- Look left, young man! …”
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Photographic encounters : the edges and edginess of reading prose pictures and visual fictions / W.G. Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence. by Garrett-Petts, W. F. (William Francis), 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Appendix: Blurring Boundaries: PhotoGraphic Encounters, the Exhibition -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.…”
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Sight readings : photographers and American jazz, 1900-1960 / Alan Ainsworth ; foreword by Darius Brubeck. by Ainsworth, Alan John

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Foreword by Darius Brubeck -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Approaching jazz photography -- Jazz photography and photographers 1900-1960 -- Jazz writing and the photographic image -- The Jazz image as document -- Expression in the jazz image -- The Play of Gestures: Jazz in the Studio -- Document and realism: early African American jazz photography -- Expressive realism in African American photography -- Authenticity and art: 'New generation' white photography -- Interrogating jazz: exiles and Jewish photography -- Looking forward, looking back: Jazz photography after 1960 -- Conclusion: Herb Snitzer, (1960)-- Appendix: Photographic agency and jazz photography -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Seduced by modernity : the photography of Margaret Watkins / Mary O'Connor and Katherine Tweedie. by O'Connor, Mary Elizabeth, 1947-, Tweedie, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…Domesticated to death" : Watkins in Hamilton -- "Like a butterfly hitched to a plow" : becoming an artist, 1909-1915 -- Circulating bodies and selves : Watkins's studies, portraits, and nudes -- Making home in the metropolis : domestic still-life photography -- "Strange offerings" : gender, modernist form, and the selling of modernity -- Modernity and magic : Watkins in Europe, 1928-1931 -- "A study in brass tacks" : photographing in the USSR, 1933 -- The imagined city : Glasgow in the thirties and forties -- Later life and legacy.…”
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Stryker's America photographing the great depression / Schauble, Justin.

Table of Contents: “…Post-WWI America: Agriculture to Industry (3:41) -- Images of the Great Depression (3:37) -- Photographers Record the Great Depression (2:55) -- 1930s: Photographic Documentation (2:37) -- Traveling Photographic Exhibitions in the 1930s (1:38) -- Congress Against Photographic Documentation (2:00) -- War Propaganda Photography (3:15)…”
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Photography and Cinema : 50 Years of Chris Marker La JetŒe / edited by Margarida Medeiros, Teresa Mendes Flores and Joana Cunha Leal.

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Index; 1. Photography and Fetish; 2. The Play between Still and Moving Images; 3. …”
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The paradox of photography / Pierre Taminiaux. by Taminiaux, Pierre, 1958-

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Documenting the face of America Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI photographers / Butler Films.

Table of Contents: “…New Deal Photography Project (4:08) -- Americans Disenfranchised in Depression (3:31) -- FDR and Help for Farmers (2:54) -- Political Crisis Under FDR (3:07) -- Documentary Photography (3:16) -- Walker Evans: Photographer (3:42) -- Photographer John Colyer and Walker Evans (4:39) -- Photographer Dorothea Lange (3:10) -- Media Coverage of America's Poor (3:11) -- 1920s: City vs. …”
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Photography and literature in the twentieth century / editors, David Cunningham, Andrew Fisher and Sas Mays.

Table of Contents: “…Table of contents; list of illustrations; introduction; forgotten cameras & unknown audiences; bored by photographs; memory and photography; benjamin's optic the world as image and thing; photography and the literary conditions of surrealism; ansel adams; "its beautiful visual entirety"; situationist radical subjectivity and photo-graffiti; buddha barthes; anti-modernism and narrativity in the work of allan sekula; w.g. sebald and the modern art of memory; notes on contributors; index.…”
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Enlightening encounters : photography in Italian literature / edited by Giorgia Alu, Nancy Pedri.

Table of Contents: “…Photo-literary encounters in Italy -- The lure of photography -- Photography structuring narrative -- Narrated photographs and photographs narrating -- Through the lens.…”
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Snapshots of the soul : photo-poetic encounters in modern Russian culture / Molly Thomasy Blasing. by Blasing, Molly Thomasy

Table of Contents: “…A Century of Photo-Poetic Encounters -- Illuminating consciousness: Pasternak's poetics of photography -- Through the lens of loss: Tsvetaeva's elegiac photo-poetics -- Framing memory: Brodsky and photographic time -- Poetic mothers in the photo frame: Akhmadulina's lyric dialogue with silver age snapshots -- Darkroom of dreams: poetry, photography and the optical unconscious -- Digital denied: poetry and photography after 1999…”
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Les Mythologies individuelles : Récit de soi et photographie au 20e siècle. by Nachtergael, Magali

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Depression Glass : Documentary Photography and the Medium of the Camera-Eye in Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams. by Vescia, Monique

Subjects: “…Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 Knowledge Photography.…”
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The Jazz Image : Seeing Music through Herman Leonard's Photography. by Pinson, Heather K.

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 The Formation of the Jazz Image in Visual Culture; CHAPTER 2 The Construction of Signs in Jazz Photography; CHAPTER 3 Ceci n'est pas jazz: The Battle for Ownership; CHAPTER 4 A "Style Portrait" of the Avant-Garde; CONCLUSION: The Visual Image of Jazz; APPENDIX A: Herman Leonard Timeline 1923 to 2008; APPENDIX B: List of Exhibitions for Herman Leonard's Photography; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.…”
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Textual exposures : photography in twentieth-century Spanish American narrative fiction / Dan Russek. by Russek, Dan, 1963-

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Mediating American autobiography : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / Sean Ross Meehan. by Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the reproduction of the author -- Strange developments: photography's autobiography -- Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking -- Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic register -- Pictures in progress: the claims of Frederick Douglass, photographically considered -- Specimen daze: Whitman's photobiography -- Epilogue: future readers.…”
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A familiar strangeness : American fiction and the language of photography, 1839-1945 / Stuart Burrows. by Burrows, Stuart, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Resembling oneself : James's photographic types -- 3. Vanishing race : Faulkner's photographic face -- 4. …”
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The politics of postmodernism / Linda Hutcheon. by Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-

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L.A. noir : the city as character / Alain Silver & James Ursini ; additional photography, Elizabeth Ward. by Silver, Alain, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…; Selected Bibliography; Selected Filmography; Photograph Notes and Locations.…”
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Russian literary culture in the camera age : the word as image / Stephen Hutchings. by Hutchings, Stephen C.

Table of Contents: “…Russian realism and the camera : out from under Gogol's 'portrait' -- Objectivity, alienation and the fragmentation of the subject : the camera as midwife to modernity -- Photographic eye as poetic I : dialogues of text and image in Maiakovskii's and Rodchenko's Pro eto project -- The Stalinist ekranizatsiia as embodied word -- Shooting the canon : ekranizatsii and the (de)centring of Stalinist culture -- Metatextuality in the post-Stalinist ekranizatsiia : the official sphere unravels -- Hamlet with a guitar : the autobiographical persona of Vladimir Vysotskii as an intermedia phenomenon -- Literature as translation mechanism in post-Soviet televisual representations of Westernness -- In place of a conclusion : television, the end of literature and Pelevin's generation 'P'.…”
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