Art 130 Reading Schedule for Weeks 5 & 7

Here is the updated reading schedule for weeks 5 and 7. We may not have time to discuss the final chapters from Michael Fried's Why Photography Matters As Never Before, but you can use any of the chapters in this book for your research paper.

WEEK 5 (May 1 & 3): Susan Sontag. On Photography

Rough paper topic due: Thursday, May 4th by 6:00PM PT

Monday, May 1: On Photography

• 
 Chapter 1: In Plato’s Cave, p. 3-24. (Group 1)

•  Chapter 2: America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly, p. 27-48. (Group 2)

•  Chapter 3: Melancholy Objects, p. 51-82. (Group 3)

•  Chapter 4: The Heroism of Vision, p. 85-112 (Group 4: p. 85-99. Group 5: p. 100-112.)

Wednesday, May 3: On Photography

•  Chapter 5: Photographic Evangels, p. 115-149. (Group 1: p. 115-131. Group 2: p. 131-149)

•  Chapter 6: The Image World, p. 153-180. (Group 3: p. 153-166, Group 4: 166-180.)

•  Chapter 7:  A Brief Anthology of Quotations, p. 183-207 (Group 5). These quotes are pretty amazing, and this is a fast and enjoyable chapter.

WEEK 6 (May 8 & 10): LACMA Field Trip on Saturday, May 13. All day trip. No on campus meetings this week.

WEEK 7 (May 15 & 17): Michael Fried. Why Photography Matters as Never Before

Monday, May 15: Why Photography Matters as Never Before

•  Introduction, p. 1-4 (Group 1)

•  Chapter 1:Three Beginnings, p. 5-35.
 (Group 1: p. 5-18. Group 2: bottom of p. 18-35.)

•  Chapter 2: Jeff Wall and Absorption, p. 37-62. (Group 3)

•  Chapter 3: Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the Everyday, p. 62-93. (Group 4)

•  Chapter 4: Barthes’s Punctum. p. 95-114. (Group 5)

•  Chapter 5: Thomas Struth’s Museum Photographs, p. 115-142. (Group 1: p. 115-137. Group 2: 138-142.)

Wednesday, May 17: Why Photography Matters as Never Before

•  Chapter 6: Jean-François Chevrier on the Tableau Form, p. 143-189. (Group 2: 143-161. Group 3: p. 162-189.)

•  Chapter 7: Portraits, p. 191-233. (Group 4: p. 191-210. Group 5: p. 211-233.)

• 
 Chapter 8: Street Photography Revisited, p. 235-259. (Group 1)

•  Chapter 9: Thomas Demand’s Allegories of Intention, p. 261-302. (Group 2: p. 261-281. Group 3: p. 281-302)

•  Chapter 10: Good Versus Bad Objecthood, p. 303-333. (Group 4)

•  Conclusion: Why Photography Matters as Never Before, p. 335-352. (Group 5)