AH 331 Primary Sources
| Date | Author | Title |
| 1839 | Joseph Nicephore Niepce | Memoire on the Heliograph |
| William Henry Fox Talbot | Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing | |
| Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre | Daguerreotype | |
| Dominique Francois Arago | Report in History of Photography by Josef Maria Elder | |
| 1840 | Edgar Alan Poe | The Daguerreotype |
| 1844 | William Henry Fox Talbot | A Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art |
| 1855 | Lewis Carroll | Photography Extraordinary |
| 1857 | Lady Elizabeth Eastlake | Photography |
| 1859 | Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Stereoscope and the Stereograph |
| 1862 | Charles Baudelaire | The Modern Public and Photography |
| 1863 | Oscar Rejlander | An Opology for Art-Photography |
| 1874 | Julia Margaret Cameron | Annals of My Glass House |
| 1890 | Jacob Riis | How the Other Half Lives |
| Lewis Hine | Social Photography | |
| 1896 | Henry Beach Robinson | Idealism, Realism, Expressionism |
| 1897 | Joseph Pennell | Is Photography Among the Fine Arts? |
| 1899 | Alfred Stieglitz | Pictorial Photography |
| 1900 | Sigmund Freud | The Interpretation of Dreams |
| Nadar | My Life as a Photographer | |
| 1908 | Anonymous | Is Photography A New Art? in Camera Work |
| 1922 | Paul Strand | Photography and the New God |
| 1923 - 30 | Edward Weston | Daybooks |
| 1925 | Adolf Hitler | Mien Kampf |
| 1927 | Friedrich Nietzsche | The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music |
| Laszlo Moholy Nagy | Photography | |
| Walker Evans | The Reappearance of Photography | |
| 1930 | Walter Benjamin | The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction |
| 1933 | Brassai | Paris de Nuit |
| 1935 | Martin Heidegger | The Origin of the Work of Art |
| Laszlo Moholy-Nagy | From Pigment to Light | |
| 1940 | Clement Greenberg | Avant Garde and Kitsch |
| Towards a New Laocoon | ||
| Walter Benjamin | The Arcades Project | |
| 1945 | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | Phenomenology of Perception |
| 1946 | Jean-Paul Sartre | Existentialism Is a Humanism |
| 1950 | Jean Genet | Un Chant D'Amour |
| 1951 | Berenice Abbott | Photography at the Crossroads |
| 1952 | Henri Cartier Bresson | The Decisive Moment |
| 1955 | Edward Steichen | The Family of Man |
| Robert Frank | The Americans | |
| 1957 | Roland Barthes | Mythologies |
| 1958 | Allan Kaprow | The Legacy of Jackson Pollock |
| Robert Frank | Statement | |
| 1961 | Clement Greenberg | Modernist Painting |
| Susan Sontag | Against Interpretation | |
| 1962 | Claude Levi-Strauss | The Savage Mind |
| 1964 | Beaumont Newhall | The History of Photography |
| Susan Sontag | Notes on Camp | |
| Berenice Abbot | The World of Atget | |
| Antonin Artaud | The Theatere and its Double | |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan | Subterranean Homesick Blues |
| Edward Weston | Seeing Photographically | |
| 1966 | John Szarkowski | The Photographer's Eye |
| Nathan Lyons | Photographers on Photography | |
| 1967 | Roland Barthes | The Death of the Author |
| Michael Fried | Art and Objecthood | |
| Marshall McLuhan | The Medium is the Massage (Message) | |
| Guy Debord | The Society of the Spectacle | |
| Roland Barthes | Elements of Semiology | |
| 1968 | Roland Barthes | The Death of the Author |
| 1969 | Aaron Scharf | Art and Photography |
| 1975 | Allan Sekula | On the Invention of Photographic Meaning |
| 1977 | Roland Barthes | Rhetoric of the Image |
| Susan Sontag | America Seen Through Photographs Darkly | |
| 1969 | Joseph Kosuth | Art After Philosophy |
| Michael Foucault | What is an Author? | |
| 1971 | Linda Nochlin | Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists |
| John Berger | Ways of Seeing | |
| 1973 | Laura Mulvey | Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema |
| Lucy Lippard | Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object | |
| 1974 | John Berger | Understanding a Photograph |
| Larry Clark | Tulsa | |
| 1974 | Juliet Mitchell | Psychoanalyses and Feminism |
| Peter Burger | The Theory of the Avant Garde | |
| 1976 | Umberto Eco | A Theory of Semiotics |
| 1977 | Charles Jencks | The Language of Post-Modern Architecture |
| Susan Sontag | On Photography | |
| Illness as Metaphor | ||
| Walther Benjamin | A Short History of Photography | |
| Jean-Francois Lyotard | Trans/ Formers | |
| 1979 | Jean-Francois Lyotard | The Postmodern Condition |
| Mary Kelly | Post Partum Document | |
| Douglas Crimp | Pictures | |
| Germaine Greer | The Obstacle Race | |
| 1980 | Roland Barthes | Camera Lucida |
| Douglas Crimp | The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism | |
| Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | |
| Julia Kristeva | Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection | |
| Alan Trachtenberg | Classic Essays on Photography | |
| Carig Owens | The Allegorical Impulse | |
| 1981 | Benjamin Buchloh | Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression |
| Vicki Goldberg | Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present | |
| Douglas Crimp | The End of Painting | |
| On the Museum's Ruins | ||
| 1984 | Frederic Jameson | Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism |
| 1985 | Richard Avedon | In the American West |
| 1986 | Allan Sekula | The Body and the Archive |
| 1990 | Anna Chave | Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power |
| 1992 | Arthur Danto | Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary |
| 1999 | Andy Grundberg | Crisis of the Real: Writings on Photography Since 1974 |
| Therese Lichtenstein | Games of the Doll | |
| 2001 | Philip Steadman | Vermeer's Camera |
| David Hockney | Secret Knowledge and Discussion of the book/ theory | |
| 2005 | David Levi Strauss | The Highest Degree of Illusion |
| 2011 | Alan Kirby | The Death of Postmodernism |
| 2014 | Rob Brown | The Photographer Who Rejected Racism in the South |
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