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History
of Photography
Photography
110
This course surveys the history of photography from its earliest
manifestations to the 1970s and considers photography's applications,
as art, science, historical record, and document, among others.
Qualities
of Life: Photography and the Human Condition
Photography
213
The multifarious tradition of photography as social documentation
is examined from the early nineteenth century to the present.
The
Portrait and Its Guises in the
Modern Period
Photography
214
In addition to considering the ontology of the portrait, this
lecture traces historical developments in portraiture in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. The interplay between photography and
painting forms the core of the material.
Photography
and Performance
Photography
215
The course investigates the objectives, methods, and outcomes
of photography in various performative modes at several moments
in the history of photography, including Victorian tableaux photography,
fin-de-siécle pictorialism, the surrealism of the 1930s,
and postmodern stagings and constructions.
From
Human Documents to the Image World: Photography, 1950–1990
Photography
310
In the decades after World War II photography's social and artistic
roles changed in many ways. This turbulent period in the history
of photography is the focus of this intensive seminar.
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Travel
and Exploration
in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Photography
312 A
A survey of the far-ranging work of the peripatetic photographers
of the nineteenth century
Literature
and Photography
Photography
320
This seminar follows the parallel paths of photography and literature
as their forms and objectives shift during the course of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries.
Photography
and the Modernist Creed
Photography
322
This seminar considers photography in its "high modernist" era
(19001940) as a medium shaped by the key texts and events
of modernism, such as the writings of Marx, Freud, and Bergson
and World War I.
Photography
Exhibitions
Photography
340
An examination of the history and practice of the
photographic exhibition
Contemporary
Photography and
Critical Theory
Photography
410
This seminar investigates and evaluates contemporary photographic
practices such as the use of appropriated and media images, alteration
or manipulation of photographic prints, and the use of photography
as one part of a larger installation or in a conceptual or performance
context.
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