having passed Photo History I (part 2).

We'll discuss different methods of interpreting and analyzing photographs. Every student conducts individual research. The assignment is to make a 'portrait of a photographer', or a study of one photobook, present it in class and finalize it in a written paper. Research of the work of a photographer whose main achievement was in the period after the second world war and situate this photographic oeuvre in the context of postwar photography (1945-1976).

Survey of postwar photography, from Humanist photography to Street photography and Colour, from New Topographics to Conceptualism. Focus is on selected themes, on the photobook, and on the connection between photographic practices and social and broader cultural issues. Students are invited to make an exhibition as a way of doing research. 

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook, A History, Volume 1. Chapter 8, The indecisive moment. Stream-of-consciousness photobooks, Phaidon, 2004, pp 232-265

Juliet Hacking, 'Photography: The Whole Story', Phaidon, 2012 

M.W. Mariën, Photography: a cultural history, part five: Through the lens of culture, pp 311-358

Stephen Shore, The Nature of Photographs, Baltimore, John Hopkins UP, 1998

Susan Sontag, On Photography (1877), Penguin Books, London

John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Penguin Books, London 1972

Martin Parr and Garry Badger, 'The Photobook, A History', Volume 1, Chapter 8, The Indecisive moment. Stream-of-consciousness photobook, pp 232-265, Phaidon, 2004
Mark Durden, Photography Today, Phaidon, 2014 (KASK library)
Mary Warner Marien, 'Photography: A Cultural History', Laurence King Publishing, third edition, 2010, part five, 'Through the lens of culture', pp 311-358 (KASK Library)

Bibliotheek van de Fotografie,1,2 & 3, FotoMuseum Antwerpen & Nederlands Fotomuseum, 2004-2007

Roland Barthes, ‘Extracts from Camera Lucida. Reflections on Photography’, The Photography Reader, ed. by Liz Wells (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 19-30

John Szarkowski, Introduction to The Photogapher’ Eye, 1966 (oa in Liz Wells, The photographic reader , pp 97-103) (Nederlandse vertaling: John Szarkowsky, Inleiding tot ‘Het oog van de fotograaf’, in: (Bibliotheek van de Fotografie 1, FoMu, 2004)

John Berger, Ways of Seeing, London, Pinguin Books, 1972

Walter Benjamin, a Short history of photography, 1931 (New Left Books, Londen, 1971) http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic235120.files/BenjaminPhotography.pdf

Walter Benjamin, Extracts from “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction”’, The Photography Reader, ed. by Liz Wells (London: Routledge, 2002), pp 42-52

Susan Sontag, On Photography, Penguin, 1981 (Nederlandse editie: 'Over Fotografie', De Bezige Bij, 2010)
Sontag, Susan, Regarding the Pain of Others, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2003
Bronnen raadplegen op internet en in (oa) de FoMu bibliotheek

Alan Trachtenberg, Classic Essays on Photography, New Haven, Leete’s Island Books, 1980

semester 2: Oral exam + presentation/ paper (Portrait of a photographer, study of a photobook or curating and exhibition)

re-examination: Oral exam + paper