SS-255 Between Image and Word:Why Photographers Write
3 Credits
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SS-255-01
Tuesday
9:00 am – 11:50 am
Activities Resource Center, E -04
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SS-255-M1
Wednesday
1:30 pm – 4:20 pm
Captions, artists’ statements, essays on their own and others’ work, extended critical essays, theoretical statements about the nature of photography: all of these are forms of writing undertaken by photographers. In this course, we will study the writings of photographers with an eye to understanding the many contexts in which photographers write and the expectations for good writing those contexts create. The course will be both theoretical and practical, in the sense that students will study the writings of photographers in order to understand the various contexts of photographic writing and the ways photographers have responded to them and will develop their own skills in meeting the demands of the good use of words. All readings will be by artists who use Course Description: both photographic images and words to make meaning.