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Introduction Meet your professor:
Welcome to this second in what we hope will be a series of on-line courses for alums and friends of Middlebury College. My name is Kirsten Hoving (some of you may have known me as Kirsten Powell), and I am an art historian and chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture. I have been teaching at Middlebury for 18 years, but this is my first on-line course. I have done my best to put together this distance-learning course, but I know there are parts that could be improved. I'm very interested in your feedback. Please feel free to offer your suggestions as we go. I have taught courses in the history of photography for five years now, and I love teaching this subject. I think photography is the most important medium of visual communication of the last century and a half. I find the questions raised by the technology and aesthetics of photography fascinating, and I hope you will, too. Of course, we will only scratch the surface in four weeks, but we will have the chance to explore some very interesting topics, especially by looking at photos from our growing collection of photographs at the Middlebury Museum of Art. Remember, the first rule of computer-based learning: THERE WILL BE GLITCHES! Please let me know what problems you encounter, and we will do our best to solve them. Since the course is designed for you to do on your own time, don't worry if you get held up at one point because of technology. Computers are our friends, I tell myself, but, like our friends, sometimes they make us want to pull our hair out! Note: At the end of each page after this one, you will
see two small arrows. As you work through the course, you can click
the left pointing arrow to go back to the preceding page, or click the
right pointing arrow to move to the next page. Click Begin link below
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