Rhetoric of the Image by Roland Barthes
A Photograph by Umberto Echo
Looking at Photographs by Victor Burgin
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
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
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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
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