Graduate Seminar: Participant Observer

This is a survey course on photography, film and
video works that are linked to historical and
contemporary trends in Art, Visual Anthropology,
Ethnography, and works of social, political and
personal description. Often aggressive in nature,
deeply personal or stridently positioned in the
social sciences, the works shown will be used to
understand the relation of social theory as it is
expressed in contemporary work. The class will
provide an introduction to shared ideas in art,
photography, film and social science. Weekly
film/video and photography presentations will be
augmented by critical texts, writings by cultural
theorists, and artists exploring the facility of
image making and its use in describing paradox in
life and culture.