AH 215 - SEM CONT ART: Advanced Histories and Theories Of Photography

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University of Rochester

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Theoretical treatments of photography have ranged from ridicule (Baudelaire) to ambivalence (Benjamin) to earnest investigations of its ethical and social implications (Sontag). But in order to understand how photographs affect us, we have to locate it historically, at the intersection of social history, the history of technology, and art history. Touching on several nodal points—from the history of urbanization and police work in the19th century to the conceptualization of charity in the 20th to the impact of digitalization on artistic authorship in the 21st—this course seeks to develop new ways of looking at photography and photographs.

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4.00

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Lecture

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www.rochester.edu

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(888) 822-2256

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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