Lecture handouts
Key Sources lecture 1
Badger, G (2009), The genius of photography, Quadrille Publishing
BBC (2009), The genius of photography, Wall to Wall Media [DVD]
Shirky, C (2008), Here comes everybody, Penguin Books
Images for L1
The ‘Decisive Moment’
Robert Capa, ‘Nick’ Ut, Richard Drew, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lorenzo Dominguez
Postmodern: Jef Wall (and Hokusai original)
Mclean, D (2009), The art of iPhone photography, Tidbits, May 19th [L1]
Key Sources lecture 2
Archer, J (2009), Photoshop.com, Spring Arbor Univ, Mar 13 [brief video tutorial on iTunes U]
Ang, T (2008), Digital photography masterclass, Dorling Kindersley
Butler, R (2009), Sense and Sensitivity, dpreview.com editorial, Sept 23
Creative Commons see also Flickr’s page on creative commons
Clark, R (2008), Digital Cameras: Does Pixel Size Matter?, clarkvision.com, Nov 2 [see example images here]
Garn J (2009), The tremendously lazy rule of thirds, jakegarn.com, April 18
iDigitalPhoto (2007), Aperture – Everything you wanted to know but thought it was uncool to ask, idigitalphoto.com, Oct 26
MIT (2006), Sensing place: Photography as inquiry (11.309J / 4.215J), MIT Open courseware, Spring [series of 8 video lectures on iTunes U]
Rodrigues, V (2008), 50 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography, SmashingMagazine.com, Nov 16th
Wikipedia (2009a), Golden ratio, wikipedia.org, Oct 12
Wikipedia (2009b), Digital compositing, wikipedia.org, Sept 4
Wikipedia (2009c), Tilt-shift photography, wikipedia.org, Oct 14
Wikipedia (2009d), Image sensor format, wikipedia.org, Oct 6
And …
Martin Wilson photography [L2]
Beckett, C (2010), That demo/riot in full: same picture, different stories, POLIS Director’s blog, Nov 11th
Leeming, C (2010), Wide angle, duckrabbit.info [blog], Nov 12th [click the photo to see the wide angle view]
Photoshop.com [L2]
Aviary Phoenix image editor
Tilt-shift maker [L2]
Additional Sources
Phonar – Jonathan Worth’s open undergraduate course on photography and narrative at Coventry University: a fantastic resource
Burnett, R (2005), How images think, MIT Press
Leadbeater, C (2008), We-think, Profile Books
Tapscott, D and Williams, AD (2006), Wikinomics, Portfolio Books

