| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | Site Selection | |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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) |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | Landscape Poetics II | |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | "Deciphering Landscape: Three Perspectives." Exhibit Opening and Lecture. Harvard Museum of Natural History, Oxford Street. | |
| 14 | Individual Meetings With Students | |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | Photo Essay Due in Online gallery | |
| 17 | Review of Photo Essays in Online Galleries with Instructor | |
| 18 | Review of Photo Essays in Class |
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