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Surveying the Field: Annotations of Further Readings

Agee, James. Forward. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969.
In this forward, Agee sets out a theory of the photoessay.

Baca, Judy. The World Wall. http://www.judybaca.com/art/worldwall/worldwall.html
An overview of a portable mural project that represents a highly approach of using visual rhetoric to participate in public discourse.

Dunne, Danielle. “A Discussion with Jakob Nielsen and Vincent Flanders.” Cio Magazine 1 Dec 2001. http://www.cio.com/archive/120101/online.html
This article transcribes an interview with Nielsen and Flanders, two outspoken gurus of webdesign.

Flanders, Vincent, & Dean Peters. Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design. Sybex, 2002.
A helpful guide to web design that uses multiple examples to demonstrate effective strategies for constructing a web-site.

Greenfield, Lauren. Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood. Chronicle Books, 2004.
In this photoessay, Greenfield uses words and images to present an engaging argument about the youth culture of Los Angeles.

—. Girl Culture. Chronicle Books, 2002.
This powerful photo essay uses amazing images accompanied by minimal text – usually first person narratives of the girls pictured – to make a powerful argument about the impact of popular culture and self-image on young American girls. A brief photoessay drawn from this full-length photo essay can be found at http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/girlculture/

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. Designing Effective Web Sites: A Concise Guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
A helpful basic design manual for those interested in creating effective web pages.

Landow, George. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
A foundational theoretical study of hypertext – the basic organizing principle of the internet.

Lanham, Richard. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
A largely theoretical but interesting look at the way that technology has changed our understanding of art and writing.

Lucaites, John Louis. “Visualizing “The People”: Individualism vs. Collectivism in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 83 (1997): 269-288.
This article provides a critical perspective on James Agee’s and Walker Evans’s innovative photoessay.

Jakob Nielsen, “Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability.” http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
In this bi-weekly column, Dr. Jakob Nielsen addresses a wide range of design issues, from “Guidelines to Visualizing Links” to the “Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003.”

Nielsen, Jakob & Marie Tahir, Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. NP: New Riders Publishing, 2002.
Provides well-thought out critiques of many popular sites including Amazon, Disney, eBay, and ESPN, as well as advice about design issues.

Sammons, Martha C. The Internet Writer’s Handbook. 2nd edition. NY: Pearson Longman, 2004.
An invaluable resource for any one interested in authoring web pages.

Stephenson, Sam, ed. Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project. NY: WW Norton & Company, 2001.
A collection of many of the photographs that W. Eugene Smith took as part of his Pittsburgh project, accompanied by two essays by Sam Stephenson about Smith’s life and work.

Storm, Brian. “Made for the Medium: Photojournalism at MSNBC.com” http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0203/storm.htm This online article provides readers insight with the dynamic ways in which multimedia has impacted both photojournalism and the photo essay.






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