Contemporary Portraits

“In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life” bell hooks

Film: Readings:

Self-portraiture & the Surrogate Other
Close to Home: Diaristic Stories & Family Connections “Stories We Tell” by Sarah Polley
Doug DuBois “Afterword”
Marianne Hirsch “The Familial Gaze”
The Anxious Figure
“Gil Blank and Thomas Ruff in Conversation”, Influence, Issue 2 (2004): 48-59

519 Lecture:

Class Consciousness &The Politics of Portraiture TBA
Grey Gardens

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Critique:Assignment #4
Lecture: Sexuality & Fashion
Reading: “Like a Man – Photographs of Collier Schorr” by Bruce Hainley 

Avedon video

Reading: “Viewfinder” by Raymond Carver Assignments:
Assignment #1 (See Handout)
Two page response to the Avedon video. Do you agree or disagree with his ideas regarding portraiture? How does that relate to your own goals or intentions?
JANUARY 30
Lecture: Origins of the Photographic Portrait Critique Assignment #1
February 6
Lecture: Self-portraiture & the Surrogate Other
Close to Home: Diaristic Stories & Family Connections Film: “Tarnation”
Reading: “Nan Goldin’s Grim Ballad”, by Andy Grundberg (From Crisis of the Real) “Afterword”, by Doug Dubois (From All the days
February 13
Critique Assignment #2
February 20
Lecture: The Anxious Figure
Film: “The Mother Project”
Reading: “Gil Blank and Thomas Ruff in Conversation”, Influence, Issue 2 (2004): 48-59
February 27
Critique Assignment #3
March 6
Holly Roberts Lecture - Room 215 at 12:30
March 13
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March 20
Visiting Artist: Johanna Warwick www.johannawarwick.com
Lecture: Class Consciousness &The Politics of Portraiture
Readings: “Benetton and the uses of tragedy”,Vicki Goldberg, Light Matters
“Tina Barney: An afterwards” by Andy Grundberg

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March 37
No class – Community of Scholars
April 3
Critique: Assignment #4
April 10
Lecture: Sexuality & Fashion
Film: Grey Gardens
Reading: “Like a Man – Photographs of Collier Schorr” by Bruce Hainley