For homework, please:
- read pp. 5-8 (starting with "Photographs furnish evidence" and ending with "...so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.") of On Photography featured in the "Reading for April 11th" folder on the Ilias Inhalt page. Sontag's language can be difficult, so take your time with her sentences and bring in any questions you might have to our next session.
- In On Photography, Susan Sontag writes, "From its start, photography implied the capture of the largest possible number of subjects. Painting never had so imperial a scope. The subsequent industrialization of camera technology only carried out a promise inherent in photography from its very beginning: to democratize all experiences by translating them into images" (pg. 7). Select 3-5 US photographs taken between 1890 and 1950 and consider whether this quote applies to them. Bring your findings with you to class. (There are two links below which might help you in finding images.)
The website "artnet" has a great search feature in which you can search by photographer and get their photographs in your search results. Clicking on their name will take you to the hyperlinked biography: Buy, Sell, and Research Contemporary Art Online: Artnet
The US National Gallery of Art has a fantastic page on which you can browse their thousands of photographic holdings here: Photography at the National Gallery of Art (nga.gov)
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