Saturday, January 12, 2013

Class 02

-->Discuss reading from A World History of Photography and Photography In Print

Review image samples and contextual relationship with the readings

Lecture/discussion topics:

Early Social Documentation
Colonialism
The Photograph as “Document”
The Social use of Photographic Documentation
Social Photography in Publication
Social Documentation in the United States
The Portrait as Social Document
Social Photography During the Depression
The Historical Section Project, F.S.A
Illuminating Injustice: The Camera and Social Issues

*Address “documentary” (non-fiction) photographic techniques and the
contemporary applications of these practices for conceptual effect


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Assigned:
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Prepare for class 03 quiz

Reading:
A World History of Photography:
Art, Photography and Modernism 1920 - 1945


Photography in Print:
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, From Pigment to Light
Ansel Adams, A Personal Credo

Establish two groups to present and lead the discussions on chapter topics (chapter topics will be assigned in class).

Bring to class contemporary visual models that illustrate similar conceptual structures identified within the reading(s) and be prepared to discuss their relationship(s): complements; contrasts; contradictions; or the evolution of lens-based representation.

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