Making cyanotype prints

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Our group

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Our group photo – smart and fun bunch! :)

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Follow the link below, and read this intriguing conversation (interview) between Susan Sontag and Geoffrey Movius. Sontag was an American essayist, literary and cultural theorist, icon, political activist, writer, and critic. She intensely wrote about photography.

http://bostonreview.net/BR01.1/sontag.html

Based on our discussions in class, and after reading the interview, voice your opinion on how you see the influences of photography in society and culture.

Comments deadline: by spring break.

Welcome

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Introduction

In this course, “Photography and Society” students will investigate and analyze the concept of how photography can shake society from indifference to induce social action. An in depth examination of various practices to achieve this goal will be studied and critiqued in the following categories: observation, contact, engagement of the subject, direct intervention of the photographer and the appropriation and aesthetics in contemporary photography as an effort to bring awareness to or change public opinion. Through the duration of the course students will be required to identify and engage with specific social issues, investigate and analyze the subject through photographic practices and finally to objectively evaluate how their individual work can directly alter public opinion or induce change within the society. A collective project in the form of a book and exhibition will be one of the key objectives of this course.

Required reading (pre-colloquium)

Documentation: Social Scene (download PDF)