MPS 406 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Reading Company, Web Archiving, Victorian Era
1 Apr 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The visual culture of photography day 1. Or is removable the best course of action: written explanatory plaque of why the statue was removed, we understand paintings and photographs of abe lincoln are images. Is a statue of abe lincoln an image: yes! It freezes a subject in time: it is a depiction of something, there have been removals of confederate statues in america. Writing about photography: a short history of doubt. Photography, a middle-brow art: pierre bourdieu, talks about wedding photographers, snapshot photographers, rare for people to be thinking critically about photography. Classic essays on photography (1980: photographers talking about making pictures, some are critical. The photograph (1997: graham clarke, how do we get meaning from images, how do photos speak to us. Photography: crisis of history (2002: language in title is changing, responding to particular phenomenon, post 9/11 world, digital age comes up, accessibility of images on the internet.
