3 credits
Spring 2025 Studio Upper DivisionThis course is an introduction to the great tradition of documentary photography. Students learn to see the world around them in a new way and produce a documentary project. The course requires reading and writing about photography, as well as making photography on a regular basis. The class emphasis is on thinking about why people photograph, what photographs do and do not mean to us, and on doing documentary work, on telling stories with photographs.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the history of documentary photography.
2Demonstrate a narrative photography experimented through personal, social, cultural, topographical politics.