HA 380/580/ 550 History of Photography


Gustave Le Gray. The Great Wave, Sète. 1856

Course Description

An introduction to the history of photography. We will consider strategies used over its history to make photography an art, a witness to truth, a record of fact, a purveyor of falsehoods, a mass medium, a hawker of goods and ideologies, an agent of political change, a means of remembrance, and more.

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Major Distribution Requirements: cross-regional, post-1800
Prerequisite: HA 100, HA 151, or the equivalent, and consent of instructor.