Documentary Photography and the Cultural Landscape

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Emphasis on the tradition and practice of documentary photography as a way of seeing and interpreting cultural life. The techniques of color and black-and-white photography - exposure, development, and printing - diverse ways of representing the cultural landscape of the region through photographic imagery. Issues such as objectivity, clarity, politics, memory, autobiography, and local culture play in the making and dissemination of photographs. The course will simultaneously consider image content, representations place, landscape, and culture through documentary image. 001407