Evans, Jessica, and Stuart Hall, eds. Visual Culture: The Reader. (London: Sage, 1999)
This is an excellent compilation that brings together some of the most influential essays of the past century on topics in cultural theory, art history, critical theory, and more. It includes:
"Rhetoric of the image," Roland Barthes
"Art, common sense and photography," Victor Burgin
"Myth Today," Roland Barthes
"The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction," Walter Benjamin
"The image-world," Susan Sontag
"Separation Perfected," Guy Debord
"The bottom line on planet one: squaring up to The Face," Dick Hebdige
"The social definition of photography," Pierre Bourdieu
"Reading an archive: photography between labor and capital," Allan Sekula
"Photography's discursive spaces," Rosalind Krauss
"Living with contradictions: critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics," Abigail Solomon-Godeau
"Evidence, truth and order: a means of surveillance," John Tagg
"Feeble monsters: making up disabled people," Jessica Evans
"Marketing mass photography," Don Slater
"Fetishism," Sigmund Freud
"The scoptophilic instinct and identification," Otto Fenichel
"The subject," Kaja Silverman
"Fantasia," Elizabeth Cowie
"The other question: the stereotype and colonial discourse," Homi K. Bhabha
"Desperately seeking difference," Jackie Stacey
"White privilege and looking relations: race and gender and feminist film theory," Jane Gaines
"Sexuality in the field of vision," Jacqueline Rose
"Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America," Mary Louise Pratt
"Reading racial fetishism: the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe," Kobena Mercer
"Dark continents: epistemologies of racial and sexual difference in psychoanalysis and the cinema," Mary Ann Doane
"White," Richard Dyer
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