62-479 Photography: Picturing Identity

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

In this course, students will investigate the methodologies through which identities are expressed, revealed, deconstructed, and imagined in photographs. This class will provide students with a critical survey of images, texts, and conventions practiced by artists whose use of the photographic medium has shaped our understandings of the body, race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, class, citizenship, religion, and ethnicity, among others. Students will work to develop their own visual language through forms of research and investigation, experimentation, and creative risk taking. A deeper relation to looking at, conversing with, and critiquing images will function as the centerpiece to this class, with work carefully assessed in terms of authenticity, reflection, expressivity, and execution. Prerequisite Familiarity with digital photography and digital cameras.

Prerequisites: none listed

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