H82.1129 Lecture 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Rice
Offered Fall only (Junior level).
Prerequisite: Social and Aesthetic History of Photography.
This class takes as its main emphasis the analysis and synthesis of visual and written information. The readings include essays by Roland Barthes, Donna Harraway and Frederick Jameson as well as articles or excerpts by Thomas Kuhn, Mircea Eliade and John Berger; also included are The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Black Elk Speaks, Amin Malouf's Murderous Identities and Deborah Willis' Picturing Us. This mixture of topics and issues is designed to broaden students' understanding of important concerns in philosophy, art history, science, literature, and psychology that are relevant to photography. Class time is spent in analysis of these texts in relation to historical and contemporary pictures.
