PH302-Su: June 2012

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

READING

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

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

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.

Objectives

The objective is to expand one’s working knowledge of the photographic lexicon, the contemporary artists that have shaped and are currently expanding this evolving vocabulary, and the tools and materials employed to define our current discourse and production within lens-based media. Through required research, students will be responsible for the development and implementation of cultural, political, and personal positions within contemporary interface of this medium. These skills will be developed through independent research conducted on authors, genres, movements, techniques, and technologies, as well as the evolution of these aggregate systems to form the unification of the medium, as we know it today. As informed and critical viewers of imagery, our knowledge base of the history of this medium will become an essential component of one’s arsenal for the development, direction, and execution of personal work.

Course Description

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

READING

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

READING