21G.049
French Photography
See description under subject 21H.145[J] . Enrollment limited.
Spring 2017
Topics
- The Decisive Moment with Special Guest Dr. Nadya Bair
- Making the News
- Is it Technology?
- Is it Magic? With Special Guest Photographer Wilfrid Rouff
- Albert Kahn & The Archives de la Planète
- Aerial photography and surveillance
- From Early Portraiture to the Selfie
- Photography, Identity, & Resemblance
- Protest Photography from May ’68 to Nuit Debut
- Photography and the President
- Documenting Urbanism
- People in the Streets
- Peer Review Workshop
- Visit to the MIT Museum – Berenice Abbott Archive
- Photography & Painting
- Visit to MIT LIST Gallery – Charlotte Moth Exhibition
- Exhibition Review Workshop
- The Postcard
- Snapshot photography
- Museum Visit
- Photography and the Art Market / Museum
- Photographs as Witnesses
- Photography as Crime
- Humanist photography
- Aesthetics and Suffering
Readings
- [Myth] = Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. 2nd ed. Translated by Richard Howard and Annette Lavers. Hill and Wang, 2012. ISBN: 9780374532345.
- [NHP] = Weaver, Mike. A New History of Photography. Konemann, 1999. ISBN: 9783829013284.
- Ses #: 1 · Topics: Photography, France, How to talk / write about photographs · Readings: No readings.
- Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé. “Daguerreotype.” In Classic Essays on Photography . Edited by Alan Trachtenberg. Leete’s Island Books, 1980. ISBN: 9780918172082.
- Manovich, Lev. “The Paradoxes of Digital Photography.” In Amelunxen, H.V., Stefan Iglhaut, Florian Rotzer, et al., eds. Photography After Photography: Memory and Representation in the Digital Age. Art Stock, 1997, pp. 240–249. ISBN: 978-9057011016.
- Okuefuna, David. The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet . Princeton University Press, 2008. pp. 9–27. ISBN: 978-0691139074.
- Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography . Hill and Wang, 2010, pp. 63–73. ISBN: 9780374532338.
- Morand, Paul. “Foreword.” In Paris by Night. Pantheon Books, 1987. ISBN: 978-0394563275.
- Stallabras, Julian. “Paris Pictured: Street Photography 1900-1968.” Royal Academy of Arts, 2002.
- Meyerowitz Colin and Joel Westerbeck, “An American in Paris.” In Bystander: A History of Street Photography. 1994_._ pp. 343–350. ISBN: 0-8212-1755-0.
- Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. ISBN: 9781453722480.
- Steinorth, Karl. “Photography for Everyone.” In You Press the Button We Do the Rest: The Birth of Snapshot Photography . Dirk Nishen Publishing, 1988. ISBN: 9781853780103.
- Alloula, Malek. The Colonial Harem . University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp. 1–26. ISBN: 9780816613847.
- Baudelaire, Charles. The Salon of 1859 . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781503306233.
- Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. “Calotypomania: The Gourmet Guide to Nineteenth-century Photography.” In Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices . University of Minnesota Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780816619146.
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as 4.674[J] , 21H.145[J] Prereq: None U (Fall) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units. HASS-A; CI-H
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2017
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- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
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