Week 1: Introduction
January 26
*First day of class postponed because of snow
January 28
Walter Benjamin, “Little History of Photography” (1931)
Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” e-flux journal (2009)
Trevor Paglen, “Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You),” The New Inquiry (2016)
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Images from class:
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, “View from the Window at La Gras” c. 1826-1827. Heliograph on pewter, considered by many as first lasting surviving photograph, though this raises larger questions about constitutes a “photograph”
*First day of class postponed because of snow
January 28
Walter Benjamin, “Little History of Photography” (1931)
Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” e-flux journal (2009)
Trevor Paglen, “Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You),” The New Inquiry (2016)
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Images from class: