ARTH 281
Photography and Memory Spring 2013
Division I
Cross-listed COMP 281
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This course is an introduction to Visual Culture with a special focus on photography and its relationship to the construction of memory. Students will read western reflections on the practice and cultural impact of photography by critics such as Barthes, Baudelaire, Baudrillard, Bazin, Benjamin, Berger, Crimp, Derrida, Eco, Flusser, Greenberg, Hirsch, Kemp, Kracauer, Krauss, Metz, Mitchell, Moholy-Nagy, Solomon-Godeau, Sekula, Sontag, and Virilio. Students will supplement the theoretical and conceptual readings by examining photographs and collections of photography and their relationship to the construction of memory–from the personal album to museum collections and historical archives to the collected works of individual artists. Many class sessions will be held at the WCMA and local museums and libraries and students are encouraged to seek out and pursue projects that are meaningful to them.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 3327
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: homework, active participation, presentation, short papers, final paper
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: based on the students' experience and desire to take the course
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 281 Division I ARTH 281 Division I

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