READING

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari

Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography – Verna Posever Curtis


READING STACK

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari

Who Owns The Future? – Jaron Lanier

Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age – Alex Wright

The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember – Nicholas Carr


RECOMMENDED

The Nature of Photographs – Stephen Shore

Curation: The Power of Selection in a World of Excess – Michael Bhaskar

When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future – Abby Smith Rumsey

Post Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894 – Alessandro Ludovico (Free PDF)

Known and Strange Things – Teju Cole


READ

Camera Lucida – Roland Barthes

Understanding a Photograph – John Berger

Ways of Seeing – John Berger

About Looking – John Berger

On Photography – Susan Sontag

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction – Walter Benjamin

The Mind's Eye – Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era – William J. Mitchell

Being Digital – Nicholas Negroponte

Born Digital – John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical Studies on Material Visual Practices

The Promise of Things – Ruth Quibell

Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years – Tom Standage

Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence – Thalma Lobel

Cloud Computing – Nayan B. Ruparelia

The World Beyond Your Head – Matthew Crawford

Why Photography Matters – Jerry L. Thompson

Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age – Victor Mayer-Schönberger

Evocative Objects Things We Think With – Sherry Turkle

Photographs Not Taken – Will Steacy

To Save Everything, Click Here – Evgeny Morozov