Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
Week 1: Introduction
1 Overview, Formal Analysis & How to Give Presentations  
Week 2: Technologies
2 Technologies  
3 Visit "Daguerre's American Legacy" at the MIT Museum Field Trip to MIT Museum
Week 3: Likeness and Identity (Portraiture)
4 Early Portraiture & the Carte de Visite  
5 Photography, Identity, & Resemblance Exhibition Review due
Week 4: Making Art I (Realism and Abstraction)
6 Photography & Painting  
7 Surrealism & Abstraction  
Week 5: Urban Exploration (Street Photography)
8 Documenting Urbanism  
9 People in the Streets  
Week 6: Making Art II (Institutions)
10 Visit to the Study Room of the Museum of Fine Arts Field Trip to Museum of Fine Arts
11 Photography and the Art Market / Museum Analysis Paper 1 due
Week 7: Photography and the Novel
12

Photography and Literature

Special Guest : Carrie O'Connor

 
Week 8: Research and Investigation
13 Science & Society  
14 Virtual Visit of "Doc" Edgerton Archive  
Week 9: Tourism & Travel
15 Picture-taking & Picture Postcards  
Week 10: Spreading the News I (Photojournalism)
16 The Decisive Moment  
17

Photography & the Press

Special Guest: Jason Hill

Visual Analysis Paper 2 due
Week 11: Humanistic Photography
18 Aesthetics & Suffering  
Week 12: Spreading the News II (War Photography)
19 The Ethics of War Photography  
20

Photographing War

Special Guest: Lalage Snow

 
Week 13: Sell, Sell, Sell (Photography in Fashion and Advertising)
21 Do Pictures Sell? Visual Analysis Paper 3 due
Week 14: Photography and Law
22 Photographs as Witnesses  
23 Photography as Crime  
Week 15: Cataloguing the World (Photo Archives to Instagram)
24 Albert Kahn & The Archives de la Planète  
25 The Documentary Impulse Today Revised Paper due