Art History 280 - COLQ: PHOTOGRAPHY & POLITICS

Topics course. Students may take up to four semesters of ARH 280 Art Historical Studies, as long as the topics are different.: Since its inception, photography has been discussed as a medium uniquely tethered to reality. This course examines the theoretical underpinnings of this link alongside case studies that put pressure on this assumption. In this course, we will track the following questions: What motivates the desire to make and view images that typically reside outside of a normative field of vision? What are the implications of “giving visibility” by appealing to notions of photographic truth? Could there be an ideological function to depicting, photographically, that which is unseen—either physically (ghosts, for example) or politically (marginalized individuals)? Group B (E)

Topic: Photography and the Politics of Invisibility.