WEEK 14 – Photography And/As Moving Image
George Baker starts off his essay, Photography’s Expanded Field with the poignant thought that he begins, “not with a negative, nor with a print, but with a screen.” The screen […]
WEEK 13 – Photography and Digital Networks
In his 2008 essay, Online Photographic Thinking, Jason Evans address photography on the web and chronicles his own relationship between photographic work and the internet. He starts off with the […]
WEEK 12 – Digital Photography
In his 1989 essay, Photography and Liquid Intelligence, Jeff Wall discusses the fact that, until digital, the way water has played an integral part in the making of photographs is […]
WEEK 11 – Photography and/as Object or Thing
Bill Brown, a professor of English at the University of Chicago proposed ways in which we differentiate things from objects with his 2001 article, Thing Theory. In his essay he […]
WEEK 9 – Photography and/of War
In his essay, “ Picturing Violence: Aesthetics and The Anxiety of Critique” Mark Reinhardt writes about a certain kind of photograph, an image of human suffering. He states that, “photographs […]
WEEK 8 – Photography of Others
Susan Sontag’s 2003 book, Regarding the Pain of Others is an addendum to her collection of essays, On Photography (1977). She starts off by questioning her initial thought that with […]
WEEK 7 – Photographs for the Wall cont’d
In Chapter 9 of Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, author Michael Fried critiques the work of Thomas Demand in regard to the intention of his work and […]
WEEK 6 – Photographs for the Wall: Michael Fried
Michael Fried first wrote on his interest in the relationship between art and the viewer in his “infamous” 1967 essay, “Art and Objecthood.” He is interested in the shift in […]
WEEK 5 – Postmodern into Contemporary
Jeff Wall’s essay, ’Marks of Indifference’: Aspects of Photography in, or as, Conceptual Art (1995) studies the ways in that photography was realized as a modernist art and institutionalized the […]