Coursework - Week III

Outline for Week III

Conferencing opportunities are on pages 3, 4, 8, 11, 15, 19 and 21.

I. Modernism
A. Modernist Photography in the United States
Reading: Chapter 11 in Seizing the Light:
"Teaching Modernism: The American Impulse," "Stieglitz's Equivalents," "Form as Essence," pp. 237-51 and "Surrealistic Themes," pp. 260-64.
1. Alfred Stieglitz
2. Edward Weston
3. Ansel Adams
B. Surrealism in Europe
II. Social Documentation
Reading: Chapter 12 in Hirsch, Seizing the Light
A. Jacob Riis
B. Lewis Hine
C. Edward Curtis
D. FSA Photographers
1. Arthur Rothstein
2. Russell Lee
3. Dorothea Lange
E. Atget and Abbott
3. The Rise of Photo-Journalism
Reading: Please read the following in Hirsch, Seizing the Light, chapter 14.
"Pictures and Printer's Ink" and "The Photo Magazine" (pp. 315-21)
"War Reportage" and "The New Subjective Journalism" (pp. 330-37)
A. Life Magazine
B. "Subjective Journalism"

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