Histories of Photography: Invention, Transformation & Affirmation is an eight-week course from The Photographers' Gallery, London. It introduces participants to the richness and diversity of photography’s histories. It takes its point of departure from photography’s early origins in the mid nineteenth century, it navigates through the many transformations that the medium has undergone since, and finishes with its definitive acceptance as an art form in the later half of the twentieth century.
The course follows some of the main trajectories through which photography’s histories unfolded over the course of around 150 years (1830s–1980s), such as the relationship with technology, science and other art forms. It maps out the key moments, practitioners, movements and exhibitions, touching upon the medium’s diverse relations with societies and political ideologies, and reflecting on the global scope of its influence.
Each week takes on a different theme or angle:
Week 1: Inventing a Medium
Week 2: Photography in and as Fine Art
Week 3: New Vision
Week 4: Surrealism and its Legacies
Week 5: The Social Field
Week 6: The Politics of Landscape
Week 7: Conceptual Uses of the Still Image
Week 8: Postmodern Documents
Weekly recommended readings will be accompanied by extended readings and a course bibliography. Suitable for all levels.
About the course tutor:
Jelena Stojković is an art historian and lecturer based in London. She holds a PhD from the University of Westminster and teaches across Fine Art and Photography courses at the University of the Arts London (Camberwell and LCC). Her book, Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan: The Impossible Avant-Garde, is forthcoming from I.B. Tauris in 2018.
See more: http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/course-histories-of-photography
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