LA 2820 - [Photography and the American Landscape]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 2820) (CA) (LA)

Fall. 3 credits.

Next offered 2012-2013.

A. Hammer.

Interdisciplinary study of the relationship between photography, the American landscape, and cultural meaning. Topics include representation and perception, photography and painting in the 19th century, expeditionary surveys and national identity, pictorialism, the American sublime, photography and tourism, modernism and postmodernism, the industrial landscape and American ruins, and contemporary practice.