COURSE
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.