H82.1101 Lecture 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Rice
Offered Fall only (Sophomore level).
Prerequisite: Culture, History, Imaging & Photography Studies. Required of all sophomore majors.
This class will be a social and political history of photography, from its beginnings to the present day. It will focus on the popular forms of photgraphic imagery, like advertising, fashion, travel photography, family portraits and snapshots, scientific documents, documentary reform and photojournalism, and describe the medium's relationship to Western (and global) social history during the modern era. Brady, Warhol, Capa, Nadar, Martin Chambi, Atget, Tomatsu, Muybridge, Curtis, Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, Alvarez Bravo and Berenice Abbott are among the cast of characters to be discussed, and readings will include Susan Sontag, John Berger and Roland Barthes among others.
