AVC223

This course is an introduction to the visual, material, and cultural debates surrounding lens-based technology from its inception in the nineteenth century to the digital age. The course explores multiple and overlapping histories of photography, tracing the medium’s adaptation in global contexts. Using images drawn from multiple contexts students consider not only what is inside the photographic frame, but also what occurs outside of it. Concerns include the materiality of photographic objects and image technologies. This is conceived as an introductory course, open to all levels.