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Reading List

All Consuming Images, Stuart Ewen
All the Days and Nights, Doug DuBois
Big-Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell
Family Business, Mitch Epstein
John Adams, David McCullough
Mythologies, Roland Barths
On Photography, Susan Sontag
Pictures From Home, Larry Sultna
Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard
Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York
The Active Consumer: Novelty and Surprise in Consumer Choice, Marina Bianchi
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
The Geopgraphy of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser
The Small-Mart Revolution, Michael H. Shuman
The Uncanny, Freud