Schedule of Lectures and Reading
WEEK 1 Intro
T 1/20 Wells, 3-8
Th 1/22
Technological Omniscience
·
Malcolm Gladwell, “The Picture Problem: Mammography, Air Power, and the Limits of Looking,”
The New
Yorker 12/13/2004, on HuskyCT [under course content, not ECR]
BLOGGER POST DUE TO
GLADWELL READING + ONE REPLY DUE
BY 12NOON—You must be registered to the course Blogger page in order to post
and you must accept the Blogger invitation from your Uconn email address.
WEEK 2 Art and
Abstraction in Photography
T 1/27 American Formalism + Photography History
· Wells 11-17,
257-71, 279-81
· H+W Illuminations: Browning, 2; Cameron
8-13, Freund 14-21, McGrath 261-70
Th 1/29 The European Avant-garde
· H+W Illuminations: Ades 66-70, Miller 74-5,
Krauss 76-90, Lichtenstein 91-96
· Wells 271-85
WEEK 3: Advertising, and Commodity Culture
T 2/3 Mad Men: Art +
Glamour
· Wells
205-39
· H+W Illuminations: 119-27
· Pollan
15-108 should be read by this time
W 2/4
4 pm: Food for Thought,
symposium on The Omnivore’s Dilemma
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Visualized, opens at CAG 5:30
Th 2/5
Advertising + Ideology
· Wells
240-56
· H+W Illuminations: Gomez 448-56
· Review
ADVERTISING links on Blogger + HuskyCT
BLOGGER DUE: One post, one reply due on Wells, Case
Study: The Commodification of Human Relations 221; OR Case Study: Tourism, fashion and ‘the Other’ 240; OR Case Study: Bennetton, Toscani,
limits of advertising 256
WEEK 4: Omnivorous
T 2/10 Class meets at CAG (Contemporary
Art Galleries)
Th 2/12 College
Art Association Annual Conference. Class does not meet.
WEEK 5: Documentary Photography
T 2/17 Social Photography + Ethics
· H+W Illuminations: Solomon-Godeau 96-116,
Tucker 165ff, McCausland 170-74
· Wells
89-112
Th 2/19 Documenting the Depression: FSA Photography
· Wells
38-49, 67-86, 92-102
· H+W Illuminations: Bourke-White 133-40,
Squiers 140-51, Lange 151-53, Fisher 153-61, Welty 161-65
BLOGGER POST + ONE REPLY
DUE TO: Wells, “Case Study:
Migrant Mother”; and “Daughter of Migrant Mother” SF Gate
WEEK 6: Ideology of the Family: Intimacy, Vernacular + the Cold War
T 2/24 Consuming Families
· Wells 117-165;
201-04
· H+W Illuminations: Kuhn 471-79, Lord 237-51
· “Digital
Exhibitionism: The Age of Exposure,” Ana María Munar (2010) HUSKYCT
· Pollan,
109-40
W 2/25 Jason Lusk, author of The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About
the Politics of Your Plate [and is the anti-Pollan]
speaks at 7pm in Student Union
Th 2/26 The “Family of Man” + the Nuclear Family
· Wells
9-56, 102-06
· H+W Illuminations:
Abbott 203-7
· Pollan,
237-61
WEEK 7: Landscape and
Manifest Destiny
T 3/3 Geological Surveys: Topography + Aesthetics + the
West
·
Wells 297-310
· H+W Illuminations: Newhall 270-72
· Pollan
185-207
Th 3/5 Counter-Narratives of the West
· H+W Illuminations: Bright 333-48, Morris
319-33, Lippard 413-22
WEEK 8:
MIDTERM
T 3/10 MIDTERM
TH 3/12 Reading Day. Class
does not meet.
WEEK 9: Spring Break
WEEK 10: Technologies of War
T 3/24 The
Hollywood War + the Rise of Photojournalism
·
Wells 69-74; 86-89
· H+W Illuminations: Miller 178-85
Th 3/26 Photojournalism
+ Politics
· H+W Illuminations: Grover 185-203
·
“Shock Photography,” Roland Barthes on ECR
·
“From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of
America’s Wars,” Bruce Franklin on ECR
·
WAR IMAGING links on HUSKYCT
WEEK 11: Photography + Postmodernism
T 3/31 Histories of Photography
· Wells
167-192
· H+W Illuminations: Marien 203-307,
Solomon-Godeau 307-319
Th 4/2 Postmodern Photography and Appropriation
·
Wells, 285-303
· H+W Illuminations: Mulvey 377-86
· Richard
Prince pdf on HUSKYCT
WEEK 12: Pictures of the Body: Sexualities + Sexual Identities
T 4/7 The
Discourse of “Others”
· Wells
167-204
· H+W Illuminations: Goldin 283-91, Chris
272-83, Grover 348-77, Gallop 394-403
· Craig
Owens, “The Discourse of Others” on ECR
Th 4/9 Guest
Lecture: Betsy Fahlman, “Women Photographers: full title tba”
WEEK 13: Photography in the Age of Terrorism
T 4/14 Photography
in the Age of Terrorism
· Wells
311-344
· Karen
Randall, “Speaking the Unspeakable: Invisibility and Trauma after 9/11” on ECR
· David
Campany, “Safety in Numbness: Some remarks on problems of ‘Late Photography’
HUSKYCT
Th 4/16 Photography + Surveillance
· Photography
+ Surveillance links on Blogger
·
Links to work and essay in Trevor Paglen folder on HUSKYCT
·
Pollan 227-364
BLOGGER POST + ONE REPLY DUE to this
week’s reading
WEEK 14: PAPERS DUE in class Tues 4/21
• BLOGGER CLOSES F 4/24 at 5pm
T 4/21 STUDENT
PRESENTATIONS
Th 4/23 STUDENT
PRESENTATIONS
WEEK 15:
T 4/28 STUDENT
PRESENTATIONS
Th 4/30 STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
FINAL EXAM:
Thursday, May 3, 10:30-12:30 tentative: check the Registrar’s website.
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