HART0110: Between Realism and Modernism: Indicative weekly topics

AUTUMN TERM

1. Introduction
2. Documents and the Documentary: Histories and Theories of Photography
3. The Photographic Section: Roy Stryker, the FSA and the New Deal
4. Documentary and the New Objectivity
5. Photographic Archives: Histories and Theories of Photography
6. Pictorialism
7. The New Vision: Experimental Photography in Europe
8. Manhatta and American Modernism: Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler
9. Social Documents: Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
10. Understanding Atget

SPRING TERM

1. Margaret Bourke White and Erskine Caldwell: You Have Seen their Faces
2. Walker Evans and James Agee: Let us Now Praise famous Men
3. Richard Wright and Edwin Rosskam: 12 Million Black Voices
4. Radical Work: The Workers’ Film and Photography Movement
5. Pare Lorentz and Nykino
6. Magnum: Photography and Humanism
7. From Robert Frank to New Documents (1967)
8. The Düsseldorf School of Photography
9. Reinventing Documentary
10. Gallery Visit: V & A Prints and Drawings Room and Photography Galleries