633 photography

Photographic Technologies and Representation in the American Midwest CCR 633 ::: 2/24/11Saturday, March 12, 2011

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Photographic history methodologiesSaturday, March 12, 2011

Photograph as rhetorical object/textSaturday, March 12, 2011

Inscription of private and public memory Rhetorical construction of placeSaturday, March 12, 2011

Amateur v. ProfessionalSaturday, March 12, 2011

Roh: Need we master the mechanism in order to become a “good” photographer? No. Organizing, individualizing principles. Personality is required.Saturday, March 12, 2011

Roh: 5 types of “applied photography” 1. photogram 2. photomontage 3. reality photo 4. photo combined with typography 5. photo combined with etching/paintingSaturday, March 12, 2011

Tim, paraphrasing Kate & Latoya: “Do all technologies drastically alter our ways of perceiving the world? Or, do we primarily attribute this quality to technologies associated with language? How might this affect how we think about technological determinism? Meaning, is it possible to make small claims about determinism —such as, technologies associated with language determine shifts in collective human perception?”Saturday, March 12, 2011

Hoelscher: The camera is simultaneously a technology of domination and survivance. Assigning meaning to photographs depends on understanding the contexts of creation and circulation.Saturday, March 12, 2011

Ben: I’m no “guns don’t kill people” fanatic because that’s absurd, but how much agency do we pin on photographic technologies in the history that Hoelscher describes, and how much do we pin on colonialization, western reason, and capitalism? Is photography really a “‘predatory weapon’ in American colonialism” (9), as Sontag describes it, or is it just a handy tool for a variety of aims? What I’m asking is if Hoelscher thinks there is something inherent in the technology that lead to this particular use, and, if so, to what extent do you all agree?Saturday, March 12, 2011

Edward Curtis, “White Shield.” (1908)Saturday, March 12, 2011

Ephriam Swain Finch demonstrating how he attempted to kill grasshoppers in 1876Saturday, March 12, 2011

Shooting ducks on Marsh Lake, Cherry CountySaturday, March 12, 2011

633 photography

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