21W.749 / CMS.935 Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion, Spring 2009
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Author(s)
Colen, B. D.
Alternative Title
Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion
Date Issued
June 2009
Abstract
This course is an introduction to the great tradition of documentary photography. Students learn to see the world around them in a new way and produce a documentary project. The course requires reading and writing about photography, as well as doing it on a regular basis. The class emphasis is on thinking about why people photograph, what photographs do and do not mean to us, and on doing documentary work, on telling stories with photographs. This is not a technical class, and it should not be considered an "introduction to photography." I work on the assumption that any student signing up for the class has at least a minimal sense of the difference between f stops and T stops, and can find his or her way around a camera. While there will be some technical discussion in class, it will be limited.
Subjects
Photography
photojournalism
writing
journalism
documentary
news
image
photo
camera
picture
newspaper
magazine
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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