Fashion Photography I

Catalog description

An examination of fashion design and fashion photography as forms of communication and culture, how fashion makes meaning, and how it has been valued through history, popular culture, and media institutions, focusing on the relationship between fashion, visual self-presentation, and power; production and consumption; identity and body politics; art and status; nationhood and global economy; celebrity and Hollywood culture; youth cultures and subversive practices. Requires outside shooting and lab work. Computer experience is mandatory.