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Week |
Topic |
Reading |
| 1 | Course intro; From optics to
chemistry in the 19th century
Image Group 1: Fixing an Image Chapter One terminology and outline [compare it with your own notebook summary] |
Text, chapter 1
Talbot essays on photogenic drawing |
| 2 | the daguerreotype: portraits
and the beginning of studio practices
Image Group 2: The art of daguerreotypy Chapter 2: Key Questions for Review |
ch. 2 |
| 3 | new technologies: the paper/glass
debate and the amateur/professional debate
Image group 3: From paper to glass Comparison chart: daguerreotype vs calotype |
ch. 4;
Holmes essay on the stereograph |
| 4 | documenting reality in the 19th
century: photographing war
Image group 4: Picturing War and Trauma |
ch. 5 |
| 5 | creating a photographic language
(1): European romanticism
Image Group 5: Photography becomes an art, pt 1 |
ch. 6 |
| OCT 1 | approval of term project before this date | |
| 6 | creating a photographic language
(2): the American landscape
Image Group 6: Landscape photography in the 19th century A Web Outline of the Landscape tradition in the 19th century |
ch. 7
Krauss: Photography’s Discursive Spaces |
FINALISTS FROM THE REWRITE CONTEST |
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| OCT 15 |
Midterm: Midterm Study Guide |
Midterm Image Group |
| 7 | documenting movement; Image group 7: Changing Technologies | ch. 8; ch. 13 |
| 8 | Camera Work, pictorialism
and the photo-secession
Image group 8: Pictorialism |
ch. 9 |
| OCT 22 | no class | Midterm
Answer Key
Answers to the Take-Home Quiz on ch. 9 |
| 9 | photographic modernism, pt 1:
the constructivist vision
image group 9: photographic modernism I Overview of Artistic Styles, early 20th century (with illustrations) Brief Overview of Artistic Styles (without illustrations) |
ch. 10 |
| 10 | photographic modernism, pt. 2: the surrealist vision | ch. 11 |
| 11 | constructing social reality: American photography between the wars | ch. 12 |
| 12 | Photographic books and the new photojournalism | ch. 14;
Squiers: Picturing Scandal |
| 13 | the second “new vision”: popular culture and photography in the 60s and 70s | ch. 16-17 |
| DEC 10 | Final projects due no later than 5 pm | |
| 14 | new media and new portraits at the end of the 20th century | ch. 18 |
| DEC 15,
2:45 pm |
FINAL EXAM |
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