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Course: Art, Art History, and English 469: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts

Topic Title: Truth, Lies, Memory, and Imagination: The Photograph as Story

Instructor: Alec Soth and Brad Zellar, Fall 2014 Artists in Residence

UW Instructor of Record: Matthew Bakkom, Department of Art

Day/Time: Wednesdays, 1:20-3:50pm

Location: 6261 Humanities Bldg

Limit: 20

Credits: 3

Prereq: Consent required.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This seminar will investigate the myriad possibilities of combining photographs and text to tell stories—whether the stories are straight documentary journalism, personal history, or works of speculation and imagination. The reading and discussion materials for the course will provide models for student projects, which will take a number of different shapes—photo essays, documentary work, personal stories, scrapbooks, history, or fiction—but will all in some way attempt to tackle the narrative and storytelling potential of photographs. Each week's seminar will include readings and creative assignments/exercises related to the topic addressed.