Art 130 Books for Fall 2021

Hello everyone,

I am in the process of updating the Art 130 website for Fall Quarter 2021, but I wanted to let you know which books you will need to purchase for the class.

Here is the 4 books that we will be using:

1) Roland Barthes. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Available from the Campus Bookstore and Amazon)

2) Geoffrey Batchen, Ed. Photography Degree Zero (Available from Campus Bookstore and Amazon)

3) Michael Fried. Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before (Available from the Campus Bookstore and Amazon)

4) Susan Sontag. On Photography (Available from the Campus Bookstore and Amazon)

ART 130 RESOURCES:

1) Art 130 Syllabus: can be found HERE.

2) Weekly Reading Assignments: can be found HERE.

3) Art 130 Questionnaire: can be found HERE. Please fill this out and return it to me very quickly. There are numerous questions that relate to your access to technology during this time.

4) Research Paper Prompt: can be found HERE. You will be selecting the photographer about whom you will write a formal research paper. You need to have selected your rough topic by Thursday, October 28 (week 5). Your photographer should be well enough known to have been the subject of scholarly research. You may use any of the assigned books for this class, but you will also want to utilize scholarly journal articles from the Davidson Library Website (HERE). You will note that I have linked to the Art 1A page of the Davidson Library website because it is very easy to navigate, and it is very helpful. Before you select your photographer, be sure to look through your four books for inspiration, and once you have narrowed down the field I will speak with each of you individually about your proposed subject of research.

5) If you need help finding research materials, then please reach out to our Art and Architecture Librarian, Chizu Morihara.

cmorihara@ucsb.edu
(805) 893-2766

6) Office Hours: By appointment, and after class. Email: taschian@arts.ucsb.edu

7) Group Reading Journals: You will submit your weekly reading summaries each Thursday by 6:00PM PT. Your reading journals are largely intended to help you learn the material, and to identify scholarly sources that can be used in your research paper. However, they also allow me to see how you are framing and interpreting the materials the we are covering.

You should be summarizing the most important points that are made by the authors, and those that you find particularly interesting. You need to write in full sentences, rather than listing abbreviated ideas in the form of bullet points.

8) First Reading Assignments:

WEEK 1 (September 28 & 30): 
• Roland Barthes. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Part One: p. 3-60.
• Roland Barthes. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Part Two: p. 63-119.