Class03 Readings

Class 03 Readings:

A Democracy of the Image: Photographic Portraiture and Commodity Production by John Tagg

Ideology and Criticism from The Limits of Representation by Michel Foucault

NOTE:  You are to identify and bring to class three to five images that represent/support/contradict/illustrate the selected theories presented by Tagg and Foucault.

Next class please have your identified peer review DRAFT.  This is a ruff outline of the work you will be providing a critical review on due class 05.  If you have any questions please contact me.

For more information on John Tagg and Michel Foucault please visit:

John Tagg

http://www2.binghamton.edu/art-history/faculty/jtagg/index.html

Michel Foucault

http://www.michel-foucault.com/index.html

Class02 Readings

Class 02 Readings:

Selections from Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes


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


In Our Image by Wright Morris

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Additional information regarding the authors:

Roland Barthes:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rbarthes.htm

W.J.T. Mitchell
 http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mitchell/
Good video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-c1vfykhw

Wright Morris
http://www.unl.edu/plains/publications/resource/morris.shtml

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Note: MFA or Gallery papers will be due next class.  Please be prepared to turn in and discuss your paper in class.

Class01 Readings

Reading: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (1935)

Reading: Ways of Seeing by John Berger (1972)  

VIEW:

Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection (MFA)

Identify and research one author featured in the exhibition and prepare a brief one page review of the work (note: your review is not to be a description of the work on display but a thoughtful analysis of the exhibition) due class three (3)    

Prepare and post response notes (a minimum of two paragraphs per essay) to the class forum