| Title: | Literature & Photography |
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| Course Section Number: | ART-210-01 |
| Department: | Art |
| Description: | ENG-350-01=ART-210-01 "What tales might those pictures tell," the poet Walt Whitman once asked, "if their mute lips had the power of speech?" In English 350/ART 210, we'll explore how writers and artists have answered that question in the years since photography's invention in 1839. Nothing before photography had so accurately represented the natural world. How would the talkative text respond to the silent image? How does literature compete with photography's beauty and presumed factuality? And is it helpful, in answering these questions, to remember photography's etymology-writing with light? This semester, we'll read from the 19th century to the 21st, looking at poems, essays, stories, and criticism that respond to photography. We'll look at photographs and photobooks. We'll consider various ways that photography and literature intersect, including author photos, illustrations, captions, photo albums, and sequential art. Writers and photographers will include: Walt Whitman, James Agee, Carrie Mae Weems, Walker Evans, Natasha Trethewey, Duane Michals, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and others. We'll ground ourselves with Susan Sontag's On Photography. We'll learn from Roland Barthes that all photographers are "agents of death" (Camera Lucida). Projects include analyzing images from Wabash's archives and class presentations on new photographers. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 21, 2024 |
| End Date: | December 14, 2024 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/22/2024-12/12/2024 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 01:10PM - 02:25PM, Room to be Announced
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| Faculty: | Mong, Derek |
| Requisite Courses: | Take 1 credit from ART or ENG department; or permission of the instructor |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 15 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 7 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
| Section Name/Title | Status | Dept. | Capacity |
Enrolled/ Available/ Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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ART-210-01
(cross-listing)
Literature & Photography |
OPEN | Art | 15 | 4 / 8 / 0 |
|
ENG-350-01
(primary)
Literature & Photography |
OPEN | English | 15 | 3 / 8 / 0 |