Lagrange a good theory intro?

[Nacio Jan Brown]

I don't know about theory (I shut down whenever I see the words "transgression" or "privileging") but you can learn something from Robert Adams' "Why People Photograph" and "Beauty in Photography" as well as from Gerry Badger's "The Pleasures of Good Photography." Also, the above-mentioned work by Geoff Dyer. And I've always found reading Bill Jay enjoyable. njb (On post-modernism, the definitive website is: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/. Go there and hit your browser's reload button a few times. That pretty much says it all.)

[sanking]

Since most of us are involved with landscapes I recommend the book Landscape as Photograph, by Estelle Jussin and Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock,Yale University Press,1985. I have read most of the theory authors mentioned in this thread, and a lot of others, but as a practicing photographer, and thinker and writer about photography, Landscape as Photograph is a must read, IMHO.

Sandy King

[paulr]

From this week's NY Times Magazine ...

"To immerse yourself in literary theory as an impressionable young person is a little like squinting at a piece of toast until the face of Jesus materializes. It’s a slight perceptual shift (all you have to do is unfocus your eyes) but risky, because there’s no going back to plain toast after Jesus. "

--Carina Chocano

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/ma...ff-t.html?_r=1