Photography and Art: Influences and Interactions in the Modern
Era
A series of instructive, simulating and enlightening photography
seminars led by Dr. James Murphy, Art Historian.
Seminars cover the development and evolution of
photography as an art form, social influence, communication tool
and technology from its origins in the early nineteenth century to
the present day.
Presented as two separate seminar series,
with each series comprised of linked sessions of one hour each.
No Charge
SEMINAR SERIES I: Tuesdays
6:30-7:30 pm
February 12, 19, 26
March 18, 25
2/12 A Trivial Image on a Scrap of Metal: Niépce,
Daguerre and the Inventions of Photography
2/19
The Pencil of Nature: William Henry Fox
Talbot
2/26 Samuel F. B. Morse: Art, Science and American
History
3/18 The American Landscape: Theology,
Ecology, Typology
3/25 The Social Landscape: Hine,
Sander to Arbus, Friedlander
SEMINAR SERIES 2: Tuesdays 6:30-7:30
pm
April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
May 6
4/1 War and
Conscience - Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Boltanski:
4/8 Modernism and the Real
World - Alfred Stieglitz and Edward
Steichen:
4/15 Extending Human
Vision: Marey, Muybridge and the Motion Picture
4/22 Revolutions and Revivals:
Collodion to Photoshop CS
4/29 Pictorialism vs. Naturalism:
Truth vs. Beauty 1857-2007
5/6 Postmodern
Dilemmas: Appropriation,
Simulation and Visual Culture
Each seminar series is one complete module and should be taken as a
complete unit. The second series is a development and extension of
the first but may be registered for separately. Please RSVP and
register at the museum reception desk or by contacting the
museum's education office at bresnam@dbc.edu, or by calling
(386)506-4569.
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