French Photography

Calendar

Ses #	Topics	Key Dates
Week 1: Introduction
1	Photography, France, How to talk / write about photographs
Week 2: What is photography? I. (Moment or Network)
2	The Decisive Moment with Special Guest Dr. Nadya Bair
3	Making the News
Week 3: What is Photography? II (Science or Art)
4	Is it Technology?
5	Is it Magic? With Special Guest Photographer Wilfrid Rouff
Week 4: Capturing the World: Albert Kahn to Aerial Photography
6	Albert Kahn & The Archives de la Planète
7	Aerial photography and surveillance
Week 5: Likeness and Identity (Portraiture)
8	From Early Portraiture to the Selfie
9	Photography, Identity, & Resemblance	Visual Analysis Paper 1 due
Week 6: Politics, Propaganda, Protest
10	Protest Photography from May ’68 to Nuit Debut
11	Photography and the President
Week 7: Urban Exploration (Street Photography)
12	Documenting Urbanism
13	People in the Streets
Week 8: Research and Investigation
14	Peer Review Workshop
15	Visit to the MIT Museum – Berenice Abbott Archive	Visual Analysis Paper 2 due
Week 9: Marking Art I (Realism & Abstraction)
16	Photography & Painting
17	Visit to MIT LIST Gallery – Charlotte Moth Exhibition
Week 10: Writing Week
18	Exhibition Review Workshop	Exhibition Review due
Week 11: Tourism & Travel
19	The Postcard
20	Snapshot photography
Week 12: Making Art II (Institutions)
21	Museum Visit
22	Photography and the Art Market / Museum	Visual Analysis Paper 3 due
Week 13: Surveillance & the Law
23	Photographs as Witnesses
24	Photography as Crime
Week 14: Spreading the News (Humanistic Photography and Ethics)
25	Humanist photography
26	Aesthetics and Suffering	Revised and Expanded Paper due