Introduction to Seeing Through Photographs-Introduction to the Course
Welcome to Seeing Through Photographs!
Getting Started: How Does This Course Work?
Seeing Through Photographs
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Sarah Meister Introduces the Course
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Marvin Heiferman on “Photography Changes Everything”
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Optional Discussion Forum Prompts
Optional Readings and Resources
Pre-Course Survey
One Subject, Many Perspectives-Part I: A New Moon
Introduction to This Week
Vik Muniz on Photographing the Familiar
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Artistic Equivalents
One Subject, Many Perspectives-Part II: Telescopes and Cameras
Early Photographs of the Moon: Surface, Scale, and Technology
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Moons and Moonlight
Eugène Atget. Pendant l'éclipse. 1912
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Liz Deschenes on Tilt/Swing (360º field of vision, version 1), 2009
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One Subject, Many Perspectives-Part III: Seeing the Unseen
New Perspectives: Man on the Moon
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Photographs by NASA
U.S.G.S. and NASA, Surveyor III. Surface of the Moon, Day 319, W-F. 1967
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Who Does the Moon Belong To?
One Subject, Many Perspectives-Part IV: It's Only a Paper Moon
Vernacular and Fine Art Photographs of the Moon
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Moon Phases
Ansel Adams. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. 1941
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One Subject, Many Perspectives-Part V: Review and Respond
Optional Discussion Prompts and Creative Challenges
Optional Readings and Resources
Documents and the Documentary-Part I: Introduction
Introduction to This Week
Sarah Meister on Documents and the Documentary
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Documents and the Documentary-Part II: Framing Reality
Facts and Fictions
Zora J Murff on At No Point in Between, 2018–19
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Fictions and Facts
Mike Mandel on Evidence, 1977
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Thomas Demand on Room (Zimmer), 1996
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Documents and the Documentary-Part III: Words and Pictures
Artist Spotlight: Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother. 1936
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Dorothea Lange. On the Road to Los Angeles, California. March 1937
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Artist Spotlight: Gordon Parks
Documents and the Documentary-Part IV: Focus on New Documents, 1967
Sarah Meister on Documentary Photography
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Arbus, Friedlander, and Winogrand
Documents and the Documentary-Part V: Review and Respond
Optional Discussion Prompts and Creative Challenges
Optional Readings and Resources
One and Another-Part I: Introduction
Introduction to This Week
Sarah Meister on Photography and Multiplicity
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One and Another-Part II: Albums and Books
Artwork Spotlight: Frances Benjamin Johnston's The Hampton Album, 1899-1900
Frances Benjamin Johnston. The Hampton Album. 1899-1900
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Photo Books
One and Another-Part III: Bodies of Work
Photo Series
Nicholas Nixon on The Brown Sisters, 1975–Present
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Sohrab Hura on Snow, 2015–ongoing
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One and Another-Part IV: One from Many
One from Many
Irina Rozovsky on Miracle Center, 2019–ongoing
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Iñaki Bonillas on Marginalia, 2019–ongoing
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One and Another-Part V: Review and Respond
Optional Discussion Prompts and Creative Challenges
Optional Readings and Resources
Mid-Course Survey
Constructing Narratives, Challenging Histories-Part I: Introduction
Introduction to This Week
Hank Willis Thomas on the Role of Advertising Images
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Artwork Spotlight: Hank Willis Thomas's UNBRANDED series
Constructing Narratives, Challenging Histories-Part II: Re-envisioning History
Constructing History
Challenging History
Carrie Mae Weems on From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995–96
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Walid Raad on My neck is thinner than a hair: Engines, 1996–2001
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Harrell Fletcher on The American War, 2005
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Constructing Narratives, Challenging Histories-Part III: Envisioning Selves and Stereotypes
Constructing Personal Narratives
Iñaki Bonillas on Constructing Identities
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Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Stills. 1977–80
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Dionne Lee on True North and AA O KK, 2019
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David Alekhuogie on To Live and Die in LA, 2019
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Constructing Narratives, Challenging Histories-Part IV: Review and Respond
Optional Discussion Prompts and Creative Challenges
Optional Readings and Resources
Pictures of People-Part I: Introduction
Introduction to This Week
Katy Grannan on Taking Portraits
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Artwork Spotlight: Katy Grannan's Portraits
Pictures of People-Part II: Between Subject and Object
Exploring Agency
Susan Meiselas on Carnival Strippers, 1973–75
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Self-Possession
Pictures of People-Part III: Individuals and Types
Performing Identity
Akram Zaatari on After They Got the Right to Arms. Fourteen young men posing with guns, early 1970s/2006
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Stephanie Syjuco on Cargo Cults, 2013–16
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Pictures of People-Part IV: Strangers and Friends
Loved Ones
Tina Barney on Sunday New York Times, 1982
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Deana Lawson on Roxie and Raquel, 2010
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Maria Antelman on Hall of Mirrors, Self Stranger, and Puzzlers I and II, 2020
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Pictures of People-Part V: Review and Respond
Optional Discussion Prompts and Creative Challenges
Optional Readings and Resources
Ocean of Images-Part I: Introduction
Introduction to This Week
Sarah Meister on the Ocean of Images
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Ocean of Images-Part II: Analogue Ancestors
Before the Digital Wave
Gertrudes Altschul. Lines and Tones. c. 1952
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Appropriating Mass Media
Robert Heinecken. Are You Rea. 1964–68
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Martha Rosler on House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, 1967–72
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Carmen Winant on My Birth, 2018
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Ocean of Images-Part III: Digital Oceans
Born Digital
Thomas Ruff on jpeg msh01, 2004
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Anouk Kruithof on Subconscious Travelling, 2013
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Lucas Blalock on Strawberries, 2014–15
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David Horvitz on Mood Disorder, 2015
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Özlem Altın on Topography (of time, of body), 2019
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Ocean of Images-Part IV: Review and Respond
Optional Creative Challenge
Optional Readings and Resources
End of Course Survey