The Education of a Photographer

Acknowledgments vii Foreword Photo Literacy x Steven Heller Introduction Years of Teaching xii Charles H. Traub Section One Reflections on the Medium: What It Means to Photograph The Paths of Modern Photography (1928) 1(6) Alexander Rodchenko Photography at the Crossroads (1951) 7(5) Berenice Abbott Untitled (1952) 12(11) Henri Cartier-Bresson The Camera Mind and Eye (1966) 23(5) Minor White Worlds in a Small Room (1974) 28(2) Irving Penn Interview with Lee Friedlander (1996) 30(2) David Harris Colleagues (1996) 32(4) Robert Adams Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled (2001) (excerpt) 36(2) Philip Perkis A Fluttering Knuckleball: Lunch with Stephen Shore and Tim Davis (2004) 38(4) Stephen Shore and Tim Davis Central America and Human Rights: An Interview with Susan Meiselas (2000) 42(6) Ken Light Pictures from Home (1992) 48(3) Larry Sultan The Plaintiff Speaks (1994) (excerpt) 51(9) Clarissa Sligh The Soul of the Image and Visual Literacy (2005) 60(5) Daile Kaplan Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1984) (excerpt) 65(2) Vil Flusser Interview with Vera Lutter (2003) 67(9) Peter Wollen A Conversation with Jeff Wall (2000) 76(6) David Shapiro Natura Pictrix (1997) 82(7) Peter Galassi and Vik Muniz Section Two How Others See Them: Considering the Photographer William Klein 89(5) Brian Palmer, from Klein Symposium Statement (1989) Lisette Model 94(2) Max Kozloff, from New York: Capital of Photography (2002) Diane Arbus 96(4) Shelley Rice, from "Essential Differences: A Comparison of the Portraits of Lisette Model and Diane Arbus" (1980) Alexey Brodovitch 100(6) Kerry William Purcell, from Ballet (2002) Aaron Siskind 106(7) Charles H. Traub, from Roadtrip (1989) Garry Winogrand 113(11) Leo Rubinfien, from Some Reminiscences (2001) Luigi Ghirri 124(2) Luigi Ghirri/Charles H. Traub, from Statement/A Remembrance (1999) WRITERS ON PHOTOGRAPHY The Unforeseen Wilderness (1971) 126(4) Wendell Berry Shots (1977) 130(1) Cythia Ozick Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph (2004) 131(2) Dave Eggers Section Three Finding an Audience: Working with the Professionals THE LEGENDS Alexey Brodovitch 133(7) Brodovitch on Photography (1961) Helen Gee 140(3) Limelight (1997) (excerpt) PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY: INTERVIEWS The Privilege to Work for Artists 143(2) An Interview with Peter MacGill Visualizing Martha 145(5) An Interview with Gael Towey Documenting in the Twenty-First Century 150(8) An Interview with Robert Pledge The Photo Book 158(6) An Interview with Yolonda Cuomo Editing Visuals 164(4) An Interview with Elisabeth Biondi The Artist in the Marketplace 168(9) An Interview with Charlotte Cotton Section Four Guides for the Uneducated: Higher Education and Photography History of Photographic Education with an Emphasis on Its Development in the United States (2005) 177(8) Nathan Lyons Commitment (1962) 185(3) John Szarkowski Valentine (2005) 188(2) Stephen Frailey The Dos and Don'ts of Graduate Studies: Maxims from the Chair (1995) 190(4) Charles H. Traub A Handy Kit for Do-It-Yourself Critics (1962) 194(5) Ralph Hattersley Unprecedented Photography (1927) 199(2) Laszlo Moholy-Nagy When a Student Asks (1956) 201(2) Minor White A Brief List of Self-Assignments for Artists (2005) 203(2) Mary Virginia Swanson SHARED WISDOM Solving Problems (1979) 205(3) An Interview with Aaron Siskind Learning from the Bauhaus (1979) 208(2) An Interview with Harry Callahan The Narrative 210(3) An Interview with Gregory Crewdson Remembering Life Through Photographs 213(3) An Interview with Randy West The Medium as Subject 216(2) An Interview with Penelope Umbrico Objects of Desire 218(3) An Interview with Sarah Charlesworth A PHOTOGRAPHIC THESIS AT/TENSION: The Essence of Portrait Photography (2005) 221(2) Rachael Dunville Afterword 223(1) Adam B. Bell Biographies 224(11) Index 235