Famous essays about photography

These are the books I've read about photography and would recommend everyone who interested in photography a little bit more: 
  1. Roland Barthes, "Camera Lucida
  2. Susan Sontag, "On Photography"
  3. Stephen Bull, "Photography"
  4. John Szarkowski, "The Photographer's Eye"
  5. Andre Bazin, "The Ontology of the Photographic Image", in “Classic Essays on Photography”,  ed., Alan Trachtenberg
  6.  Douglas Crimp, "Pictures" October, Volume 8, 1979, also in “Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation”, ed., Brian Wallis
  7. Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"  in “Visual and Other Pleasures”
  8. Roland Barthes, "The Photographic Message"

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