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Seeing Through Photographs

This course is part of Modern and Contemporary Art and Design Specialization

Instructors: Sarah Meister +1 more

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What you'll learn

Understand artists’ processes and the choices that inform a photograph’s making, including experimentation and responses to technological innovation.

Learn how context influences the production, circulation, and reception of photographic images.

Understand the relationship between a photograph’s subject and meaning, and the differences between photographs as objects and photographic images.

Gain confidence in looking at and talking about photography, and find inspiration from photographs all around you.

Skills you'll gain

Culture

Art History

Social Studies

Creativity

Storytelling

Cultural Diversity

Journalism

Photography

Aesthetics

Media and Communications

There are 7 modules in this course

Look closely at 100 photographs from MoMA’s collection, going behind the scenes of the Museum and into artists’ studios through videos and audio interviews. Gain new perspectives on the ways photography has been used throughout the medium’s history: as a means of artistic expression, a tool for science and exploration, an instrument of documentation, a way to tell stories and record histories, and a mode of communication and critique.

One Subject, Many Perspectives

Documents and the Documentary

One and Another

Constructing Narratives, Challenging Histories

Pictures of People

Ocean of Images

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