Literature available in a compendium from Akademika: is marked *:
Steve Anderson, Technologies of Vision: The War between Data and Images (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), 1-38.
Stefan Andriopoulos, Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media (New York: Zone Books, 2013), 23-49.
* Hans Belting, An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body, trans. Thomas Dunlap (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2011), pp. 9-36.
* Hans Belting, Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011), pp. 90-128.
* Walter Benjamin, “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.
* Marta Braun, Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), pp. 150-198.
Horst Bredekamp, Image Acts: A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency, trans. Elizabeth Clegg (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), pp. 265-283.
Jill H. Casid, Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015), 35-87.
*Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), pp. 25-66.
* Noam Elcott, Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 77-133.
Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), 115-182.
David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002), pp. 204-227.
Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 84-119.
Bernhard Siegert, Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015), pp. 1-19.
* Kaja Silverman, The Miracle of Analogy, or, the History of Photography, Part 1 (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2015), pp. 39-65.
Allan Sekula, “The Body and the Archive,” October 39 (Winter 1986): pp. 3-64.
* Victor Stoichita, A Short History of the Shadow (London: Reaktion Books, 1997), pp. 11-41.
Marina Warner, Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) 131-143.
* Siegfried Zielinski, Deep Time of the Media: Towards an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), pp. 1-11.