Visual Culture Colloquium

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Prerequisite: Junior standing, Photography & Imaging III. Photographic media participates in a pervasive, diverse and influential manner in contemporary society. As a means of considering the relevant issues of photography, this course will derive from a series of weekly lectures offered by established practitioners and professionals. This course focuses on the work and practices of working photographers from their own perspective. Invited guests from a range of photographic fields including contemporary art, commercial/advertising, fashion, and photo-journalism/editorial, speak on their own work, and process and critically assess and explore their position within the broad field of photography today. In past semesters? series, guests to the class have included Joel Agee, Hilton Als, Larry Clark, Sheryl Conkelton, John Coplans, Stephen Frailey, Jim Goldberg, Nan Goldin, Andy Grundberg, Renee Iijima, Larry Krone, Michael Lesy, Michael Martone, Susan Meiselas, Vic Muiz, Dread Scott, Bruce Davidson, Shirin Neshat, Maggie Steber, Larry Sultan, Penelope Umbrico, Renee Cox, and Wendy Ewald.