ARTX215 A History of Photography—Readings
Fall Quarter 2014, Kalamazoo College
Richard Koenig, Professor

 

 

Week              Day     Chapter          Pages              Sections

 

One                  Th        Chapter 1          1 to 18             All

 

Two                  Tu        Chapter 2          19 to 35            Through Post-Mortem Portraits

Chapter 3          40 to 50           Through Calotypists Establish a Practice

Sontag 1                                   Plato

 

Two                  Th        Chapter 4          57 to 76            All

 

Three                Tu        Chapter 5          77 to 90            All

                                    Sontag 2                                   America

 

Three                Th        Exam One

 

 

Four                 Tu        Chapter 6          91 to 102           Introduction, Discovering a Photographic Language

Chapter 7          107 to 113         Mechanical Photography, The Traveling Camera

119 to 128         The American West: The Narrative and the Sublime

                                    Handout                                     The West

 

Four                 Th        No Class

 

Five                   Tue       Chapter 8          131 to 146         All

Chapter 9          147 to 169         All

                                    Sontag 3                                    Melancholy

 

Five                   Th        Exam Two

 

 

Six                    Tu        Chapters 10       170 to 174         Through Cubism

176 to 186         Toward a Modern Practice through Collage

189                   Paul Strand and Straight Photography

Chapter 11         191 to 200         Through Straight, Modernistic Photography

Sontag 4                                     Heroism

 

Six                    Th        Chapter 12         218 to 241         Through The Great Depression: The Economics of Photography

 

Seven                Tu        Chapter 13         248 to 263         All

                                    Sontag 5                                    Evangels

 

Seven                Th        Exam Three

 

Eight                  Tue       Chapter 14         264 to 287       Through War Reportage

 

 

Eight                  Th        No Class

 

Nine                 Tu        Chapter 15         293 to 309         Through Robert Frank in Photography and Alienation

314 to 317         Subjective Documentary, Terror of Riches

 

Nine                 Th        Chapter 16         320 to 340         All

 

Ten                   Tu        Chapter 17         341 to 365         Through Color Rising

 

Ten                   Th        Exam Four


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