Lecture and discussion: Race & Class
Screening: The Notion of Family, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Aperture video
Screening: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
One-page typed proposals due on Thursday, Feb. 1 outlining concept of project and materials for the semester
Individual meetings with students to discuss proposals.
Reading: Danny Lyon: Social Critique, pages 90-91 and Danny Lyon: Social Critique, pages 106-107
Writing Assignment and Oral Presentations:
Please visit this website: Making Pictures of People: Recent Perspectives on Photographic Portraiture
Select a portfolio of one photographer whose work you like in particular, read his/her interview, and write a one-page paper addressing some of these questions.
Who are the subjects of these photographs?
Where were these photographs taken?
What is the photographer's relationship to these subjects?
How is the photographer using light and color to shape mood?
Does the work have any social or political content such as issues of race, class, gender or sexuality?
Half the class will present papers and the selected photographer's portfolio to class on Tuesday, Feb. 20 and the other half on Thursday, Feb. 22.
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