Description/Outcomes

Course Description:
In this course, students will examine contemporary philosophical, historical, aesthetic and epistemological topics by addressing the evolution of discourse from the Enlightenment into the 20th century. A comprehensive selection of theorists and critics who address visual semiotics and the taxonomy of imagery and ideas will be introduced. Active discussion and participation will be a core requirement.

Course Outcomes Assessment:
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.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Next 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

On-going work on Peer Review project due CLASS SIX.

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