ARTT-140 Photography Appreciation
This course is a study of photography as a fine art form from its beginnings to contemporary times. Early photography, pictorialism, modernism and contemporary works will be discussed. Genre considerations such as portraiture, documentation, landscape, and the nude will be discussed. Various photographers' works will be studied in some depth. Emphasis will be placed on the meaning, aesthetic qualities and the context of photographs in history and in relation to other art. Parallels will be drawn to painting and sculpture and to more recent photographs.