ARTH 257

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History of Photography

Credit: 3 hours.

Examines a history of photography from its origin to the present, including both documentary and artistic approaches; considers relationships with other arts.

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ARTH 257 class schedule data for spring 2010
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	48074	Lecture	A	6:00PM -8:00PM	T	301 Architecture Building	Lang, K Weissman, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Info: Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Undergraduate Section. Discussion section: Wednesdays 4:15-5:15 (UI Students Only) Organized as a survey, this course seeks to provide students with a basic introduction to some of the major currents and practitioners in European and American photography from the mid-19th century to the present, as well as to a number of key historical texts that reflect photography's unstable status between technology and aesthetics, mass culture and the avant-garde, art and document. Beginning with an investigation of photography's scientific origins, the course will trace the complex social functions of the photographic image as it developed within and beyond the aesthetics of modernism. First, we will examine photography?s relationship to traditional artistic genres, from still life and portraiture to landscape and history. In this section we will focus on photography's relationship to social practice: How, for instance, was photography used by politicians, businesses, and social movements to reorganize the modern nation state? The course will then turn to a set of turn- of-the-century photographic practices that debated the medium?s status as art. This investigation will set the stage for a discussion of the documentary practices of the 1920s and 1930s. The course's final section will consider photographic practices in the late 20th and early 21st century.
	53658	Lecture-Discussion	AO1	6:00PM -8:00PM	T	ARR Washington DC	Lang, K Weissman, T	Date Range: 01/19/10-04/20/10 Section Fee: Graduate - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $309.00 per Bill Hour, Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $277.00 per Bill Hour, and OCE Fees $45.00 per Bill Hour. Section Info: Academic Outreach restrictions and assessments apply, see http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu. Class will not meet during the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spring break. Restriction(s): Restricted to NDEG:Grad Nondegree-CE-UIUC or NDEG:Undergrad Nondeg-CE-UIUC.