PHOTOGRAPHY, Art 828a, Issues in Contemporary Photography
G10 Green Hall; WEDS 1:00-4:00

A full year course for first-year photography students. This course will explore approaches to contemporary photography, from 1975 to the present, beginning with the first generation of Postmodernism. Students will examine the relationship that art photography has to popular culture and the blurred relationship between photography, film, fashion, advertising and pornography. Trends and approaches to art photography, including tableaux, appropriation, abstraction and simulation will be studied. Students will also explore how contemporary photographers have worked to challenge, expand and reinvent such traditional genres as portraiture, the nude, landscape, and still life photography. The class will also be a forum for a wide range of visiting artists, photographers and filmmakers, who will talk about their work in the context of the discussions at hand.Gregory Crewdson