ARTH 3100 - History of Photography

(LA-AS, ALC-AS, HST-AS)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

A. Moisey.

How did photography become the world’s most dominant kind of visual representation? This course investigates photography’s scientific origins and complex relations to painting, portraiture, urban life, war, anthropology, exploration and travel, and labor and industry. By the 20th century we find photography enriched new developments that include its use as a modernist and experimental art form, in social documentary and photojournalism, in propaganda, in advertising and fashion, and its centrality in the practice of conceptual art, postmodernism, and the art and surveillance of the digital age.