The 2018 book-list
Lauren Elkin – Flâneuse: Women Walk the City
Olivia Laing – The Lonely City
Emily Jacir – Europa
Philip Pullman – The Book of Dust
Thuc Van Nhugen – The Refugees
Sean Sexton – The Irish: A Photohistory
Langford – Basic Photography: A Primer For Professionals
Simon Baker – Performing For the Camera
Russell Roberts – William Henry Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Jeu De Paume – Dorethea Lange: Politics of Seeing
Various – Dali / Duchamp
Laura Blacklow – New Dimensions in Photo Processes
Niamh O’Sullivan – Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger
David Farrell – Before, During, After, Almost
Justin Carville – Photography and Ireland
Seamus Murphy – The Republic
London Center for Book Arts – Making Books
Experimental Photography: A Handbook of Techniques
The 2019 to-be-read list
Richard Mosse – The Castle
Iain Sinclair – London Orbital
Reni Eddo-Lodge – Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
Shirley Read and Mike Simmons – Photographers and Research: the Role of Research in Contemporary Photographic Practice
Rebecca Solnit – The Book of Migrations
Rebecca Solnit – A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Frantz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth
Svetlana Boym – The Future of Nostalgia
John Berger – About Looking
Patti Smith – M Train
Teju Cole – Known and Strange Things
WG Sebald – The Emigrants
Susan Sontag – On Photography
Iain Sinclair – Living With Buildings
Jacques Ranciere – The Emancipated Spectator
Clare Norton – Liberating Histories
Ian Parr – Memory
Chris Krauss – Social Practices
Gregory Sholette – Delirium and Resistance
Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Aushwitz
James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
Joan Fontcuberta – Pandora’s Camera
Simon Baker – The Shape of Light
Hal Foster – Bad New Days
Mark Greif – Against Everything
Elif Bautmann – The Idiot
Roland Barthes – Mythologies
Julian Stallabrass – Documentary
So as you can see from the above, my 2018/19 reading was definitely not up to par! My goal for the year is to read everything I haven’t read plus the books below:
2020 to read list
Jessie Burton – The Miniaturist
Emily Rushovich – Idaho
Benedict Anderson – Imagined Communities
Jessica Andrews – Saltwater
Richard Ned Lebow – White Britain and Black Ireland
Philip Pullman – Daemon Voices
Stephanie Wrobel – The Recovery of Rose Gold
Frances Borzello – Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self Portraits
Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw – Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker
Dawoud Bey – On Photographing People and Communities
D A J McPherson and Mary Hickman (ed) – Women and Irish Diaspora Identities
My reading was definitely not up to par last year, especially as I had a much longer recovery from a surgery than I thought. This year my goal is to read everything on this list that I haven’t already. I’ll keep you posted!
