These are some quite advanced texts covering the artistic and cultural side of photography:

• Batchen, G (2000) Over Exposed. London: The New Press

• Berger, J. (1972). Ways of seeing. London: Pelican

• Brittain, D. (ed.) (1999) Creative Camera: 30 Years of Writing. Manchester: MUP

• Burgin, V (1982) Thinking Photography. Macmillan Press (see Benjamin ‘The Author as Producer’.)

• Burke, S. (1998). The Death and return of the Author – Criticsim and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida. Edinburgh: EUP

• Cotton, C (2004) The Photograph as Contemporary Art. London Thames & Husdon

• Evans, J ed. (1997) The Camerawork Essays. Rivers Oram Press

• Evans, Jessica & Hall, Stuart (1999) Visual culture: the reader. London. Sage

• Frizot, Michael (1998). A New History of Photography. Konemann

• Lister, M. (ed.) (2003) The Photographic Image in Digital Culture. London: Routledge

• Mitchell, W.J. (1992) The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era Cambridge, M.A MIT

• Mirzoeff, Nicholas. (1999) An introduction to Visual Culture. Routledge

• Newhall, B (1982) The History of Photography. New York Secker & Warburg

• Newhall, B. (1980) Essays & Images. New York Secker & Warburg (See Strand essay 1917)

• Payne, M. (ed). (1996). Cultural and Critical Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

• Ritchen, F. (1999) In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography. New York: Aperture

• Squires, C ed. (1990) The Critical Image. Seattle Bay Press

• Trachtenberg, A. (1980) Classic Essays on Photography New Haven, Conn. Leete’s Island

• Traub, C. (ed) (2006) The Education of a Photographer New York: Allworth Press