Literature available in a compendium from Akademika:
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Belting, Hans. An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body, trans. Thomas Dunlap (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2011), pp. 9-36.
Belting, Hans. Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011), pp. 90-128.
Benjamin, Walter. “Little History of Photography,” in The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2008), pp. 274-298.
Braun, Marta. Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), pp. 150-198.
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), pp. 25-66.
Elcott, Noam, Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 77-133.
Lewis-Williams, David. The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002), pp. 204-227.
Moxey, Keith. Visual Time: The Image in History (Durham: Duke UP, 2013), pp. 53-75.
Silverman, Kaja. The Miracle of Analogy, or, the History of Photography, Part 1 (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2015), pp. 39-65.
Stoichita, Victor. A Short History of the Shadow (London: Reaktion Books, 1997), pp. 11-41.
Zielinski, Siegfried. Deep Time of the Media: Towards an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), pp. 1-11.
Literature available on the internet:
Sekula, Allan. “The Body and the Archive,” October 39 (Winter 1986): pp. 3-64. Link
Vermeir, Koen. “The Magic of the Magic Lantern (1660-1700): On Analogical Demonstration and the Visualization of the Invisible,” British Journal for the History of Science 38, no. 2 (2005): pp. 127-159. Link