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Edi asked:

Hello, philosopher. I have some course in the university called philosophy of photography and I
wonder where I can get some information about it? We also study about Descartes. I will appreciate if
you answer me. Thank you.

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You could look at the following:

Roland Barthes Camera Lucida(Hill and Wang)

Susan Sontag On Photography(Anchor Books)

Roger Scruton "Photography and Representation", Critical InquirerSpring 1981, pp 577-603

Stanley Cavell The World Viewed(Harvard University Press)

Gombrich Art and Illusion(Princeton University Press)

Trachtenberg Classic Essays on Photography(Leete's)

You could search for articles in your library by Scruton and also by Kendall Walton — actually I
suggest starting off this way. John Searle and Nelson Goodman have also written articles on
photography.

Rachel Browne