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Seeing Through Photographs

Offered By: The Museum of Modern Art via Coursera

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Visual Arts Courses History Courses Photography Courses Storytelling Courses Cultural Studies Courses

Course Description

Overview

Taking, sharing, and viewing photographs has become second nature for many of us. This course aims to address the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing a diversity of ideas, approaches, and technologies that inform their making. You’ll explore the meaning of pictures and reconsider photography’s role in our visual culture. Look closely at 100 photographs from MoMA’s collection, going behind the scenes of the Museum and into artists’ studios through videos and audio interviews. Gain new perspectives on the ways photography has been used throughout the medium’s history: as a means of artistic expression, a tool for science and exploration, an instrument of documentation, a way to tell stories and record histories, and a mode of communication and critique.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to Seeing Through Photographs
  • One Subject, Many Perspectives
  • Documents and the Documentary
  • One and Another
  • Constructing Narratives, Challenging Histories
  • Pictures of People
  • Ocean of Images

Taught by

Sarah Meister

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