PHOT 154
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PHOT 154 | History of Photography examines the role and function of photography and its cultural history, including its relationship to art, science, social sciences, travel, fashion, and mass media. During each class, round-table discussions will focus on the important cultural, aesthetic and technical considerations in photography within the historical and contemporary contexts of works by photographers from the United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Such topics will include Looking At and Understanding Photographs, The Origins and Development of Photography, A New Aesthetic – 19th Century Photography, Photography and Modernity, Lens Culture and Mass Media as well as The Globalization of Photography in the Digital Age. In addition to the round-table discussions, there will be a variety of presentations on photography’s relationship with several key topics that have played role in the history of the medium, including The Photo Book, Theater of the Everyday – A Look at Street Photography, Family Values – The Family as Subject, the Politics of Photography, Archive, Appropiation and the Photographer as Curator, Once Upon A Time – Narrative and Tableau Photography, and Blogs, Flickr and the Social Discourse of Photography.
Catalog Description
A survey of the development of photography as a visual tradition. The development of photographic technology will be discussed as it has affected photographic practice and the appearance of the final image. The relation of photography to other arts and other technologies will be discussed in a broad cultural and visual arts context. The course traces and analyzes the development of aesthetic traditions in photography, including the portrait, the landscape, expeditionary photography, war photography, the instantaneous photograph, and significant developments in 20th century photography and the 21st century transition to digital capture and printing. The development of technology in relation to photographic imagery will also be considered, including the origin of the camera, daguerreotypes, paper prints, high-speed emulsions and lenses, flexible film, the hand camera, color photography, and digital image capture and manipulation.
Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite for enrollment in PHOT 154 | History of Photography.
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Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
Demonstrate ability to recognize and recall photography’s historical, modern and contemporary aesthetic and technical developments, practitioners, genres and trends in photographic thought.
Demonstrate application of critical thinking practices in describing, interpreting and evaluating photography’s historical, modern and contemporary aesthetic and technical developments, practitioners and genres, and its relationship within broader social, cultural and visual arts contexts.
Assessment Activity: Research Paper
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Required Textbook for Study Question Responses
Throughout the semester, students will participate in discussions on various aspects on the history of photography from both historical and contemporary contexts. The discussions will be based on assigned readings from the required text, Photography – A Cultural History, 3rd Edition, which is available from the bookstore and Amazon or eCampus Textbooks. A copy of the book is also on reserve in the Grossmont College Library. Students will be asked to complete written responses to study questions for each of the assigned readings.
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Course Content and Curriculum will be available mid-August, 2010
