Description
“Different kinds of photographs can be produced from the same matrix and often are. This fluidity of identity is what makes photography such a difficult medium to pin down, both literally and metaphorically.”
Geoffery Batchen
Photography, the most pervasive of methods mediating our experience of the world, requires careful interrogation, demands the most challenging and dynamic of stories. The class will focus on visual literacy through an understanding of the syntax of the medium. This class will propose a history for photography through transformation and cultural dissemination, rather than a history of autonomous static photographic relics.