The Photographic Book

Open to students in the Art School only.
This course receives credit under Topics in Photo
History.
A stronly revisionist way to approach the history
of photography is to bring photographic
bookmaking into a center stage. Books are
vehicles for complex structures of sustained
photographic meaning. In this sense, books can
provide an antidote to a fragmentary, inattentive
and fashion-driven photographic culture. We will
consider the difference between series and
sequences, the relation between image, text and
graphic design, and the authorial roles played by
photographer, editor, designer, and writer.
Students will produce a sketch for an own book,
or possibly produce one.