History of Photography

History of Photography

Subject Area
Course Number
ARTH 273 601
Course Code
ARTH273601
Course Key
64916
Day(s)
Thursday
Time
6:00pm-9:00pm
Course Description
A history of world photography from 1839 to the present and its relation to cultural contexts as well as to various theories of the functions of images. Topics discussed in considering the nineteenth century will be the relationship between photography and painting, the effect of photography on portraiture, photography in the service of exploration, and photography as practiced by anthropologists; and in considering the twentieth century, photography and abstraction, photography as "fine art", photography and the critique of art history, and photography and censorship.

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