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Reading and Telling Landscape |
Required Texts
Spirn. The Language of Landscape. pp. 3-81.
MacLean, Alex S. "Overview: The Houston Photographs of Alex S. MacLean," and "Eyes in the Sky: Alex S. MacLean and the Tradition of Aerial Imagery." Cite 48 (Summer 2000): 14-39.
Meyerowitz, Joel. Nature of Cities. (Foreword)
Further Readings
Meinig, D. W., ed. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. Oxford, UK: Oxford, 1979.
Potteiger, Matthew, and Jamie Purinton. Landscape Narratives. New York, NY: Wiley, 1998.
 Watts, May. Reading the Landscape of America. Rochester, NY: Nature Study Guild, 1999. ISBN: 9780912550237.
Cronon, William. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." Journal of American History 78, no. 4 (March 1992).
Elkins, James. How to Use Your Eyes. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.
Cosgrove, Denis, and Stephen Daniels, eds. The Iconography of Landscape. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Topophilia. New York, NY: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
———. Space and Place. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
Clay, Grady. Close Up: How to Read the American City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1982.
Collier, John, Jr., and Malcolm Collier. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Lange, Dorothea. American Country Woman. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1967.
Lange, Dorothea, and Paul S. Taylor. American Exodus. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1969.
Adams, Robert. Beauty in Photography. New York, NY: Aperture, 1981.
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Light I |
Required Texts
Rowell, Galen. Mountain Light. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1986, pp. 4-9, 38-43, 58-67, and 73-94. ISBN: 0871563673.
Joel Meyerowitz: PDN Legends Online: Joel Meyerowitz and the exhibit section of Joel Meyerowitz: Images from Ground Zero.
Further Readings
Lynch, David K., and William Livingston. Color and Light in Nature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge, 1995.
Minnaert, M. G. J. Light and Color in the Outdoors. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1974.
Rossing, Thomas, and Christopher Chiaverina. Light Science: Physics and the Visual Arts. New York, NY: Springer, 1999.
Swirnoff, Lois. Color of Cities. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Freeman, Michael. Light. New York, NY: Amphoto, 1988.
Meyerowitz, Joel. Cape Light. Boston, MA: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1985.
———. St. Louis and the Arch. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1980.
Misrach, Richard. The Sky Book. Sante Fe, NM: Arena, 2000.
White, Minor. Light7: Photographs from an Exhibition on a Theme. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1968. ISBN: 0262730197.
Adcock, Craig, and James Turrell. The Art of Light and Space. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. |
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Site Selection |
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Light II |
Required Texts
Rowell, Galen. Mountain Light. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1986, pp. 182-219. ISBN: 0871563673.
Callahan, Harry. New Color: Photographs 1978-1987. New York, NY: Hallmark, 1988. ISBN: 0875296254.
Further Readings
Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1963.
Itten, Johannes. The Elements of Color. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.
Gage, John. Color and Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
———. Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
Lynch, David K., and William Livingston. Color and Light in Nature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge, 1995.
Minnaert, M. G. J. Light and Color in the Outdoors. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1974.
Swirnoff, Lois. Color of Cities. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Meyerowitz, Joel. Cape Light. Boston, MA: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1985.
———. St. Louis and the Arch. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1980.
Adcock, Craig, and James Turrell. The Art of Light and Space. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. |
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The Context of Place |
Required Texts
Spirn. The Language of Landscape. pp. 133-188.
MacLean, Alex S. "Overview: The Houston Photographs of Alex S. MacLean," and "Eyes in the Sky: Alex S. MacLean and the Tradition of Aerial Imagery." Cite 48 (Summer 2000): 14-39.
Tice, George. Paterson. Camden, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1972. ISBN: 0813507197.
Further Readings
Heaney, Seamus. "The Sense of Place." In Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980.
Hoskins, W. G. The Making of the English Landscape. New York, NY: Penguin, 1970.
Lynch, Kevin. What Time Is This Place? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1976. ISBN: 0262620324.
Morrison, Philip, Phylis Morrison, and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Powers of Ten. New York, NY: Scientific American, 1982.
Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling. New York, NY: Pantheon.
Corner, James, and Alex S. MacLean. Taking Measures Across the American Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1996.
Ward, Alan. American Designed Landscapes. Easthampton, MA: Spacemaker Press, 1998.
Meyerowitz, Joel. St. Louis and the Arch. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1985.
Caponigro, Paul. Paul Caponigro. New York: NY: Aperture, 1967.
———. Landscape. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1975.
Morris, Wright. The Inhabitants. New York, NY: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1946.
Adams, Robert. From the Missouri West. New York, NY: Aperture, 1980.
Evans, Terry. Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1986.
Jackson, J. B. The Essential Landscape: The New Mexico Photographic Survey. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
Klett, Mark. Revealing Territory: Photographs of the Southwest. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Lambert, Phyllis, ed. Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 0262621169.
Trager, Philip. Villas of Palladio. Text by Vincent Scully. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1986.
Kenna, Michael. Le Notre's Gardens. Santa Monica, CA: RAM Publications, 1997.
Siskind, Aaron. Harlem Photographs 1932-1940. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1990.
Vergara, Camilo Jose. The New American Ghetto. Camden, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Balmori, Diana, and Margaret Morton. Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1993.
Hood, Walter. Urban Diaries. Easthampton, MA: Spacemaker Press, 1997. |
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Significant Detail I |
Required Texts
Mead, Margaret, and Gregory Bateson. Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis. New York, NY: New York Academy of Sciences, 1942.
Collier, John, Jr., and Malcolm Collier. Visual Anthropology. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1986, pp. 29-42. ISBN: 0826308996.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. Saudades do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1995. ISBN: 0295975660.
Further Readings
Szarkowski, John. Looking at Photographs. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
Clay, Grady. Close Up: How to Read the American City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Thomas, Ann, ed. Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1997.
Lange, Dorothea, and Paul S. Taylor. American Exodus. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1969.
Welty, Eudora. One Time One Place: Mississippi in the Depression. Oxford, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin, 1941.
Vanderbilt, Paul. Between the Landscape and Its Other. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1993.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. City and Landscapes. New York, NY: Bullfinch, 2001.
———. The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photographs and Photographers. New York, NY: Aperture, 1999.
Adams, Ansel. Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1983.
Meyerowitz, Joel. La natura delle città . Milan, Italy: Federico Motta Editore, 1994.
Strand, Paul. Paul Strand. New York, NY: Aperture, 1971. |
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Significant Detail II |
Required Texts
Szarkowski, John. Atget. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2000, pp. 29-42. ISBN: 0870700944.
Mead, Margaret, and Gregory Bateson. Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis. New York, NY: New York Academy of Sciences, 1942. ISBN: 0890727805.
Further Readings
Szarkowski, John. Looking at Photographs. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
Clay, Grady. Close Up: How to Read the American City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Thomas, Ann, ed. Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1997.
Lange, Dorothea, and Paul S. Taylor. American Exodus. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1969.
Welty, Eudora. One Time One Place: Mississippi in the Depression. Oxford, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin, 1941.
Vanderbilt, Paul. Between the Landscape and Its Other. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1993.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. City and Landscapes. New York, NY: Bullfinch, 2001.
———. The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photographs and Photographers. New York, NY: Aperture, 1999.
Adams, Ansel. Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1983.
Meyerowitz, Joel. La natura delle città . Milan, Italy: Federico Motta Editore, 1994.
Strand, Paul. Paul Strand. New York, NY: Aperture, 1971.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. Saudades do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1995.
Collier, John, Jr., and Malcolm Collier. Visual Anthropology. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1986. |
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Storytelling |
Required Texts
Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling. New York, NY: Vintage Press, 1982. ISBN: 0679737243.
Vienne, Veronique. Page One: A Conversation with Philip Gefter, Picture Editor of The New York Times' Front Page. New York, NY: Aperture 162 (Winter 2001). (Speakers' Web sites)
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Landscape Poetics I |
Required Texts
Spirn. The Language of Landscape. pp. 216-239.
Heaney, Seamus. "The Sense of Place." In Preoccupations. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980, pp. 131-149. ISBN: 0374516502.
Caponigro, Paul. Landscape. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1975. ISBN: 0070097801.
Further Readings
Dewey, John. Art as Experience. Santa Barbara, CA: Capricorn, 1958.
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Bourassa, Steven. Aesthetics of Landscape. New York, NY: Belhaven, 1991.
Fowles, John, and Frank Horvath. The Tree. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1979.
Bye, A. E. Art into Landscape; Landscape into Art. New York, NY: PDA Publishing, 1983.
Vanderbilt, Paul. Between the Landscape and Its Other. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1993.
Jussim, Estelle, and Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock. Landscape as Photograph. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1985.
Szarkowski, John. Looking at Photographs. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
White, Minor. Mirrors Messages Manifestation. New York, NY: Aperture, 1969. |
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Field Visit to Landslides |
Required Texts
MacLean, Alex S. "Overview: The Houston Photographs of Alex S. MacLean," and "Eyes in the Sky: Alex S. MacLean and the Tradition of Aerial Imagery." Cite 48 (Summer 2000): 14-39. (Under discussion)
———. Designs on the Land: Exploring America from the Air. London, UK: Thames and Hudson, 2003. ISBN: 0500284148. (Aerial Photography) (Landslides Aerial Photography)
Further Readings
Corner, James, and Alex S. MacLean. Taking Measures Across the American Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Gerster, Georg. Below from Above. New York, NY: Abbeville, 1986.
Jackson, J. B. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
Hiss, Tony. The Experience of Place. New York, NY: Knopf, 1990. |
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Landscape Poetics II |
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Landscape Narratives |
Required Texts
Spirn. The Language of Landscape. pp. 240-265.
Lange, Dorothea, and Paul S. Taylor. American Exodus. (Compare two editions: Reynal & Hitchcock 1939 and Yale 1969)
Vergara, Camilo. Invincible Cities.
Further Readings
Morrison, Philip, Phylis Morrison, and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Powers of Ten. New York, NY: Scientific American, 1982.
Potteiger, Matthew, and Jamie Purinton. Landscape Narratives. New York, NY: Wiley, 1998.
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. ISBN: 0262082373.
Watts, May. Reading the Landscape of America. New York, NY: Collier, 1975.
Lange, Dorothea. American Country Woman. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1967.
Cronon, William. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." Journal of American History 78, no. 4 (March 1992).
Vanderbilt, Paul. Between the Landscape and Its Other. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1993.
Morris, Wright. Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory. New York, NY: Aperture, 1989.
Smith, Kevin. Structure of the Visual Book. Visual Studies Workshop, 1984.
White, Minor. Mirrors Messages Manifestation. New York, NY: Aperture, 1969.
Lyons, Nathan. Notations in Passing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974. ISBN: 0262620286. |
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"Deciphering Landscape: Three Perspectives." Exhibit Opening and Lecture. Harvard Museum of Natural History, Oxford Street. |
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Individual Meetings With Students |
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Images and Words |
Required Texts
Lange, Dorothea, and Pirkle Jones. Death of a Valley. New York, NY: Aperture, 1960.
Morris, Wright. The Inhabitants. New York, NY: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1946.
Further Readings
Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1982.
Welty, Eudora. One Time One Place: Mississippi in the Depression. Oxford, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
Morris, Wright. Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory. New York, NY: Aperture, 1989.
Caponigro, Paul. Landscape. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1975.
Sommer, Frederick. Words and Images. New York, NY: Center for Creative Photography, 1984.
Fowles, John, and Frank Horvath. The Tree. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1979.
Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin, 1941. |
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Photo Essay Due in Online gallery |
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Review of Photo Essays in Online Galleries with Instructor |
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Review of Photo Essays in Class |
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