ARTH 319 - Photography in the United States (3cr.)

Credit(s): 3

PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE US
Component: Lecture
Explores the cultural and scientific histories of photography in the United States beginning with introduction of daguerreotype in 1839. Topics include photography and portraiture, Civil War, western exploration, Pictorialism, and early modernism. Emphasizes study and identification of original photographic materials through introduction to historic photographic processes and materials, such as the ambrotype, tintype, stereograph, and Pictorialist techniques of negative and print manipulation.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring