Reading 08

Doubletake: The Diary of a Relationship with an Image by Lucy R. Lippard


The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes the Example of National Geographic by Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins

Readings 07

Re-Reading Edward Weston: Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis by Roberta McGrath

Cindy Sherman: Burning Down the House by Jan Avgikos

Exhibition Review

Two page critical review of the exhibition at the Howard Yezerski Gallery:

http://www.howardyezerskigallery.com

460 Harrison Avenue, A16
Boston, Massachusetts 02118

phone(617) 262-0550    fax (617) 262-2444


Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday 10 - 5:30pm
Saturday 11 - 5:30pm

Closed Sunday and Monday



Due next class.

Readings 05

 Evidence, Truth and Order: Photographic Records and the Growth of the State by John Tagg

Photographs of Agony by John Berger

In, Around, and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography) by Martha Rosler

Or one of the following:

Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press by Karin E. Becker
To Rescue Time from Photography by Carol Bove 
Obsessive-Compulsive Daydreaming by Mary Heilmann

Readings 04

The Crisis of the Real: Photography and Postmodernism by Andy Grundberg

The Shadow of the Object: Photography and Realism by Sara Kember

Bring to class lens-based representations from each essay and be prepared to discuss the work you have selected in conjunction with the readings.

I look forward to reading your blog postings!

Readings 03

Next class: 2011.09.29

A PHOTOGRAPH by Umberto Eco

PHOTOGRAPHY AND FETISH by Christian Metz

and introducing our next section on the postmodern.....

WINNING THE GAME WHEN THE RULES HAVE BEEN CHANGED:  ART PHOTOGRAPHY AND POSTMODERNISM by Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Next class we will be discussing the readings in detail, so please have your comments and image examples available for in-class conversation.  In addition, we will look at examples of critical/analytical reviews of work in conjunction with our forthcoming assignment (due class 05).

If you have any questions please contact me.

Readings 02

Next class: 09/22



Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Benjamin and the Political Economy of the Photograph by W. J. T. Mitchell

Rhetoric of the Image by Roland Barthes

Photography within the Humanities by Susan Sontag

The order above is recommended.  If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me.

Readings 01

We are having PDF issues... The readings can be found in front of my office door. 

Extracts from Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes (found in your book as well)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
On the Invention of Photographic Meaning, 1975 by Allan Sekula

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.