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Tate Modern Course: Appearances: Philosophy, Photography and the Self

Booking is now open for the course I'm leading at Tate Modern on Monday evenings in June. The course is called Appearances: Philosophy, Photography and the Self and runs during the Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography exhibition. There are four sessions. Booking is via the Tate Modern website or by telephone on 020 7887 8888..

Forthcoming course on Philosophy and Photographic Portraiture

I will be teaching a new course Appearances at Tate Modern on Monday evenings in June 2008. Further details of this are on my weblog Art and Allusion. This will coincide with Tate Modern's new photography exhibition Street and Studio. Booking will open on the Tate Modern website from early May.

Philosophy of Photography Bibliography

You can download a selected bibliography on the philosophy of photography here.  This bibliography does not include anything published after 2002. Suggestions for new articles and further books to include very welcome. [12 KB rtf] Download phil_of_phot_bibliog.rtf

Pixels and Pictorialism: short article on philosophy of photography

I wrote this short article 'Pixels and Pictorialism'  for an online journal Ends and Means in 1998.

For a survey of what has been written on the Philosophy of Photography, see my article 'Photography' in Jerrold Levinson (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (OUP, 2003).