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- Nil Santana Very interesting text, and questions. Indeed, there are many ways… More »
- Becca Fullerton Sontag made two points which I found really interesting. The f… More »
- Becca Fullerton http://www.amazon.com/Miss-Peregrines-Home-Peculiar-Children/dp/1… More »
- Becca Fullerton This site links to a work of young adult fiction that I thought m… More »
- Kaitlyn Wilkins http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/… More »
- Kaitlyn Wilkins I think this is an interesting way of raising awareness while par… More »
- Michelle Cornell In her interview, Sontag provides an interesting perspective on t… More »
- Michelle Cornell Also, this comment was supposed to be in response to Mary’s earli… More »
- Michelle Cornell Mary, her comment on the camera being the most important inventio… More »
- Nil Santana That’s right Sara — an excellent book, relevant to our discussio… More »
- Juliana Kocsis I’ve heard of Camera Lucida but never really explored it–those t… More »
- Juliana Kocsis Jordan, I think that’s an interesting and very apt assessment … More »
- Sara Shoultz I also thought this link might be relevant to our discussion of S… More »
- Sara Shoultz Sontag raised several intriguing points in her interview with Mov… More »
- Mary Delaughter Jordan, There is so much truth in this! I think of the past wh… More »
- Nil Santana Well, it is also interesting to investigate how photography is in… More »
- Nil Santana Absolutely! In many ways, photography is at play within those dua… More »
- Nil Santana Thanks for the link, Leah. Check out the link below when you have… More »
- Leah Rama Random additional link… This is a link to a photo collection f… More »
- Leah Rama Juliana, I liked the way to tied in the “linearity” versus “an… More »
- Kaitlyn Wilkins I think it is interesting to read Sontag’s comparison of the Chin… More »
- Nicholas Hill “Americans, if they ever think about the past, are not interested… More »
- Nicholas Hill Wow, Leah, way to sum up our generation! We seem to be so disillu… More »
- Jordan Havens I definitely agree with your last sentiment. I think, although p… More »
- Jordan Havens “When [people] report an interesting event, their accounts freq… More »

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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)

HCOLL: Photography and Society