ARTH 350: History of Photography

ARTH 350-001: History of Photography
(Spring 2012)

10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW

Innovation Hall 134

Section Information for Spring 2012

This course is a one-semester survey of photography from its prehistory to the present. Course readings, lectures, and demonstrations will address photography’s multiple histories: as artistic medium, as social text, as technological adventure, and as cultural practice. We will view images made by important contributors to photography’s histories, as well as images that are important less for who made them than for their power within the discourses of mass culture. We will also learn about various technical processes, the camera’s evolution, and the vocabulary and issues of photographic theory and criticism.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Development of photography from origins in France in the 19th century to the present. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Arts
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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