ARTT 046B. Photography III:Document: History and Practice of Photography

This course combines the history and hands-on making of photography for an integrated exploration of this medium as a form of visual documentation. It examines the uses and abuses of photography from the late nineteenth century to the present to focus on techniques and practices that challenge the documentary authority of photography. With its unique combination of lectures, reading discussions, demonstrations, hands-on image-making and critiques along with guest speaker sessions, this course will provide students with a robust set of critical and practical tools and perspectives for thinking about how the photographic image profoundly shapes our understanding of the world.

No prerequisite; students should have a smartphone or digital camera, other supplies will be provided.
Arts and Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2028 Tarver.
Catalog chapter: Art
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art

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