ARTH 4545

ARTH 4545

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

The history of photography as an art has been mostly on the page, not on the wall.  This course refocuses the standard museum and gallery history of photography back to the book.  Significantly, it takes advantage, through field trips, of the proximity of Cornell to the George Eastman House in Rochester, whose library houses the most important photobooks from around the world, including the best creations from Russia, Japan, and the United States.  Students will learn the basics of photographic printing, book construction, the role of the photobook in the rise of the artist's book in the twentieth century, as well as advanced skills in analysis of the photographic picture and sequencing.  Major themes will include the scientific photobook of the nineteenth century, the documentary photobook of the 1930s, the propaganda photobook of the communist era, the postwar photobooks of Japan, the personal/domestic turn of the 1970s, and the present state of the photobook in the digital era. 

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (LA-AS, ALC-AS)

Comments Two field trips to George Eastman Museum are required.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6545

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  7519 ARTH 4545   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person Transition to Online
    For more information visit https://arthistory.cornell.edu/arth-3940-6940-photobook-fall-2018
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6545

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 20269 ARTH 4545   SEM 102

    • W Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information visit https://arthistory.cornell.edu/arth-3940-6940-photobook-fall-2018