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Jun 15, 2024
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HC 878 - The Lens of History: Documentary Photography and Photojournalism in the United States and Europe, 1850 to 1950.3 credits
Documentary photography and photojournalism are often valued for their presumably direct connection to events, locations, and individuals of historical significance. In this seminar we will trace the history of modern documentary photography and photojournalism, with an eye towards critically considering the use of photographs as historical “evidence,” unpacking the “truth value” of photography, and reflecting on how photography constructs historical memory and functions in an archival context. Readings may include: Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Matthew Brady to Walker Evans (Hill and Wang, 1989); Shawn Michelle Smith, Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture (Duke, 2004); Elizabeth Edwards, The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 (Duke, 2012); and Georges Didi-Huberman, Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz (University of Chicago, 2012)
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