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Re-Reading Edward Weston: Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis by Roberta McGrath

Cindy Sherman: Burning Down the House by Jan Avgikos

The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes the Example of National Geographic by Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins

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Next class:

I.   Two page  paper on gallery exhibition with a concentration on identified artist(s).

II. Ten minute presentation reflecting your thesis and perspective identified in your paper (please be sure to include images to support your thesis).

III.  Reading (please post your reaction to the reading to our blog):

Liz Wells
Words and Pictures: On Reviewing Photography


If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

READING

The Shadow of the Object: Photography and Realism by Sara Kember
Photogenics by Geoffrey Batchen

READING

Photography and Fetish by Christian Metz
Winning the Game when the Rules have been Changed: Art Photography and Postmodernism by Abigail Solomon-Godeau
The Crisis of the Real: Photography and Postmodernism by Andy Grundberg

Note: Peer Review project due class six.

Readings due: 5/30

Rhetoric of the Image by Roland Barthes 

A Photograph by Umberto Echo 

Looking at Photographs by Victor Burgin

Readings due: 5/23

On the Invention of Photographic Meaning by Allan Sekula

A New Instrument of Vision by Laszlo Maholy-Nagy

Seeing Photographically by Edward Weston

Reading

- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin

 

- Extracts from Camera Lucida by Roland Barths

- What has Occurred Only Once: Barthes's Winter Garden/Boltanski's Archives of the Dead by Marjorie Perloff

- Benjamin and the Political Economy of the Photograph by W. J. T. Mitchell

Post a short (two – three paragraph) synopsis of the readings on the class blog. In addition to each text synopsis you are to provide a brief autobiographical summation of the author.

Bring to class quotes and subjects to discuss from the readings