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Comparative Studies of Social and Cultural Diversity III
Philosophies of Photography
This class will consider major statements on photography from the early period of the medium’s development to the late 20th century. Students will learn about the history of the medium, along with important topics and themes that have emerged over the years, including the semiotics of photograph, the ontology of the photograph, the relationship between technologies of mechanical reproduction and political revolution, photography and realism, and photography and modernism, among others. Students will need to purchase the following works in order to participate in the course:
Books to purchase:
Diarmuid Costello, On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2017)
Vilem Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Reaktion Books, 2000)
Because of the time required to ship from abroad, students are strongly encouraged to purchase the books as early as possible in order to have them at the start of the semester.
Books to purchase:
Diarmuid Costello, On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2017)
Vilem Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Reaktion Books, 2000)
Because of the time required to ship from abroad, students are strongly encouraged to purchase the books as early as possible in order to have them at the start of the semester.
時間割／共通科目コード
コース名
教員
学期
時限
31M350-0222A
GAS-GS6A22S3
Comparative Studies of Social and Cultural Diversity III
ペティート ジョシュア
水曜2限
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講義使用言語
英語
単位
2
実務経験のある教員による授業科目
NO
他学部履修
可
開講所属
総合文化研究科
授業計画
Week 1
-Introduction
Week 2
-Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, “Daguerreotype”
-Joseph Nicephore Niepce, “Memoire on the Heliograph”
-William Henry Fox Talbot, “A Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art”
-Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, “Photography”
Week 3
-Siegfried Kracauer, “Photography” in The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
-Siegfried Kracauer, “Photography” in Theory of Film: The Redemption of Reality
Week 4
-Walter Benjamin, “A Little History of Photography”
-Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Week 5
-Charles S. Peirce, “Signs”
-Roger Scruton, “Photography and Representation”
-Kendall Walton, “Transparent Pictures”
Week 6
-Andre Bazin, “The Ontology of the Photograph”
-Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (sections 1~4, 6~7, 14~15)
Week 7
-Joel Snyder and Neil Walsh Allen, “Photography, Vision, and Representation”
-Joel Snyder, “What Happens By Itself in Photography?”
-Diarmuid Costello, “One: Foundational intuitions and folk theory” On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry
Week 8
-Diarmuid Costello, “Two: Aesthetic skepticism and its critics” and “Three: Transparency and its critics” in On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry
Week 9
-Roland Barthes, “Rhetoric of the Image”
-Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Week 10
-Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
-Michael Fried, “Barthes’s Punctum”
-James Elkins, “Critical Response: What Do We Want Photography to Be? A Response to Michael Fried”
Week 11
-Michael Fried, “Art and Objecthood”
-Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality
-Michael Fried, “Three Beginnings,” “Conclusion” in Why Photography Matters as an Art as Never Before
Week 12
-Susan Sontag, “In Plato’s Cave,” On Photography
-Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects,” On Photography
-Susan Sontag, “The Image-World,” On Photography
Week 13
-Vilem Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
-Diarmuid Costello, “Conclusion” in On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry
Week 14
-Rosalind Krauss, “Photography’s Discursive Spaces”
-Rosalind Krauss, “Notes on the Index I”
-Rosalind Krauss, “Notes on the Index II”
Week 15
-Tom Gunning, “To Scan a Ghost: The Ontology of Mediated Vision”
-Tom Gunning, “What’s the Point of an Index? or, Faking Photographs”
授業の方法
The class will be run in a seminar-style format with weekly discussions centered around the readings for that week. Towards the end of the semester students will be asked to do a presentation on a topic of their choosing related to some aspect of the course.
成績評価方法
Grades will be based on class participation, a presentation, and a final paper.
教科書
Books to purchase:
Diarmuid Costello, On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2017)
Vilem Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Reaktion Books, 2000)
参考書
See above.
履修上の注意
No auditing permitted.
