A Short History of Photography

A Short History of Photography
6 Weeks | $195 | Online

Examine major photographic movements and the individuals who have shaped the history of the medium in A Short History of Photography. Beginning with discussion of pre-photographic experiments and continuing toward a look at contemporary photography, you will learn the relevance of this medium's rich and complex history. Lectures will concentrate on the progression of visual culture, the role of science and photography's dubious relationship with art. A print viewing assignment will bring you face-to-face with rare examples of original prints and masterworks of photography. The goal of this course is to engage history with a tangible understanding of the medium and its relationship to the act of making images.

What You Will Learn:

• How to define the chemical and optical requirements of the photographic process and relate the history of the development of those elements.
• The history of major historical figures in the development of photography and link their approach or style of work.
• How to classify and critique the various schools of photographic aesthetics.
• The ability to effectively analyze and critique the social and cultural influences of the photographic image.

Quarters Offered: Winter, Summer | Online
Course Fee: $195
Prerequisite: None
Note: Required course for Photography: Images and Techniques professional certificate.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email the academic department at unex-digital@ucsd.edu.

Course Number: ART-40412
Credit: 2.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Photography: Images and Techniques

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1/12/2021 - 2/20/2021

$195

Online

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• SECTION ID:

  152579

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  All instruction and course materials delivered and completed online between the published course start and end dates.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Fares, Caitlin

  Caity Fares is a visual artist and educator living in San Diego, California. She uses digital and analog cameras to create traditional portraits and builds handmade cameras out of discarded materials to make experimental landscapes. Fares has exhibited work in the states and abroad, including at SOMArts, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the Szkéné Theatre in Budapest and the San Diego Art Institute: Museum of the Living Artist. Her photos have been published in Blur Magazine, Coast Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and F¬Stop Magazine. She was recently awarded a residency and grant from the Fljótstunga Travel Farm in Iceland where she created landscape photographs that explore the contemporary state of a thousand-year-old lava field. Fares received her BA in Art fr...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  A World History of Photography (E-book version available here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/246888167/A-World-History-of-Photography-Art-eBook. 30 day free trial may be available) 4th
  by Naomi Rosenblum
  ISBN / ASIN: 9780789209375

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  No UCSD parking permit required.
  No visitors permitted.
  No refunds after: 1/17/2021.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $170 ($195 if enrolled after 12/14/2020).
  

• NOTE:

  SCBWI/MOPA members can receive our $25 Early Enrollment discount prior to course start date. The max discount a MOPA/SCBWI member can receive for one class is $25. It is applied upon course enrollment over the phone or in person with proof of membership. This is an online course. There are no face-to-face class sessions. You'll have access to your online course on the published start date. Login on your MyExtension account, select My Courses and click the link under LOCATION.

• DATE & LOCATION:

  1/12/2021 - 2/20/2021
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.