Reimagining Representation
PHO2113.01
Course Description
Summary
Photography was used scientific purposes and a tool of imperial during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its historical representation of the body as well as its descriptive language. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a stereotypical manner. This course will offer students an opportunity to confront this history but also to reimagine and reconstruct it through both text and images.
Learning Outcomes
- 1) To examined photographs in the early history of photography and later in order to provide critical analysis of those photographs.
2) To considered how those photographs shape our current narratives of representations.
3) To use the technology of photography and adjacent media to reconstruct pictorial narratives of existing photographs.
Cross List
- Black Studies