VIS 60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Susan Sontag, James Nachtwey, Richard Avedon
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To live is to be photographed, to have a record of one"s life, and therefore to go on with one"s life oblivious, or claiming to be oblivious, to the camera"s nonstop attentions. We are making one long film of our life. Photography as art: photography is considered in relationship to painting, photography participates in the circuit of the art market, photography is rooted in the methodology of art history. Influenced by pierre bordieu, french sociologist: this more contextual perspective offered by bourdieu looks not so much at how people take and make photographs, as at what they do with them, examines how popular taste is created. Cartier-bresson: a journalist who"s photos have developed into the art circuit. But you would never see their work in a museum. Geoffrey batchen, has called for a new history of photography. On that acknowledges that photographs have multiple manifestations and are objects as well as images.
