ART 380 - Photographic Art History

3 hours
This course will trace the history of photography from its invention to its present applications in digital imagery. The development of stereophotography, portraits, and photojournalism will be discussed as important visual communications that recorded history. Later developments in the evolution of photography, from the School of Paris in the 1890s to the Steiglitz School in America to the era of photograms and photomontage in the modern period will permit the student to understand photography as an important art form. UG