Visual Studies


Ways of Seeing
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality
An Introduction to Visual Culture
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
The Visual Culture Reader
Regarding the Pain of Others
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials
Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture
Phenomenology of Perception
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Taco Hidde Bakker
Ken Schles: Image and text are two ways to probe existence. They operate differently and inform each other in rich and profound ways, but the two never meet except in a kind of long-distance dialogue. It’s a dance I’m entranced with, but I can’t say I understand it.
Taco Hidde Bakker, The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain