The Education of a photographer

Contents: /
Steven Heller: Photo Literacy /
Introduction: /
Charles H.Traub: Years of Teaching /
Section One: /
Reflections on the Medium: What It Means to Photograph /
Alexander Rodchenko: The Paths of Modern Photography (1928) /
Berenice Abbott: Photography at the Crossroads (1951) /
Henri Carrier-Bresson: Untitled (1952) /
Minor White: The Camera Mind and Eye (1966) /
Irving Penn: Worlds in a Small Room (1974) /
David Harris: Interview with Lee Friedlander (1996) /
Robert Adams: Colleagues (1996) /
Philip Perkis: Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled (2001) (excerpt) /
Stephen Shore and Tim Davis: A Fluttering Knuckleball: Lunch with Stephen Shore and Tim Davis (2004) /
Ken Light: Central America and Human Rights: An Interview with Susan Meiselas (2000) /
Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home (1992) /
Clarissa Sligh: The Plaintiff Speaks (1994) (excerpt) /
Daile Kaplan: The Soul of the Image and Visual Literacy (2005) /
Vilém Flusser: Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1984) (excerpt) /
Peter Wollen: Interview with Vera Lutter (2003) /
David Shapiro: A Conversation with JeffWall (2000) /
Peter Galassi and Vik Muniz: Natura Pictrix (1997) /
Section Two : How Others See Them: Considering the Photographer /
William Klein : Brian Palmer, from Klein Symposium Statement (1989) /
Lisette Model : Max Kozloff, from New York: Capital of Photography (2002) /
Diane Arbus : Shelley Rice, from "Essential Differences: A Comparison of the Portraits of Lisette Model and Diane Arbus" (1980) /
Alexey Brodovitch : Kerry William Purcell, from Ballet (2002) /
Aaron Siskind : Charles H.Traub, from Roadtrip (1989) /
Garry Winogrand : Leo Rubinfien, from Some Reminiscences (2001) /
Luigi Ghirri : Luigi Ghirri/Charles H.Traub, from Statement/A Remembrance (1999) /
WRITERS ON PHOTOGRAPHS : /
Wendell Berry: The Unforeseen Wilderness (1971) /
Cythia Ozick: Shots (1977) /
Dave Eggers: Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph (2004) /
Section Three : Finding an Audience: Working wilh the Professionals /
THE LEGENDS: /
Alexey Brodovitch : Brodovitch on Photography (1961) /
Helen Gee : Limelight (1997) (excerpt) /
PHOTOGRAPHS TODAY: INTERVIEWS /
The Privilege to Work for Artists : An Interview with Peter MacGill /
Visualizing Martha : An Interview with Gael Towey /
Documenting in the Twenty-First Century : An Interview with Robert Pledge /
The Photo Book : An Interview with Yolonda Cuomo /
Editing Visuals : An Interview with Elisabeth Biondi /
The Artist in the Marketplace : An Interview with Charlotte Cotton /
Section Four: /
Guides for the Uneducaled: Higher Education and Photography /
Nathan Lyons: History of Photographic Education with an Emphasis on Its Development in the United States (2005) /
John Szarkowski: Commitment (1962) /
Stephen Frailey: Valentine (2005) /
Charles H. Traub: The Dos and Don'ts of Graduate Studies: Maxims from the Chair (1995) /
Ralph Hattersley: A Handy Kit for Do-It-Yourself Critics (1962) /
Laszló Moholy-Nagy: Unprecedented Photography (1927) /
Minor White: When a Student Asks (1956) /
Mary Virginia Swanson: A Brief List of Self-Assignments for Artists (2005) /
SHARED WISDOM : /
Solving Problems (1979) : An Interview with Aaron Siskind /
Learning from the Bauhaus (1979) : An Interview with Harry Callahan /
The Narrative : An Interview with Gregory Crewdson /
Remembering Life Through Photographs : An Interview with Randy West /
The Medium as Subject : An Interview with Penelope Umbrico /
Objects of Desire : An Interview with Sarah Charlesworth /
A PHOTOGRAPHIC THESIS : /
Rachael Dunville: AT/TENSION: The Essence of Portrait Photography (2005) /
Adam B. Bell: Afterword /
Biographies / Index.