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Seminar: Mid‐Twentieth Century American Photography - Details
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Course name Seminar: Mid‐Twentieth Century American Photography
Course number ANG.05272.03
Semester SS 2022
Current number of participants 20
maximum number of participants 20
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Monday, 04.04.2022 16:15 - 17:45, Room: Seminarraum 3 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

“No other means of representing human likeness has been used more systematically to describe and formulate American identity than photography. Envisioning and exhibiting the American self has been a photographic venture since the inception of the medium. It is an ongoing social, cultural, and political project” (Coco Fusco, “Racial Time, Racial Marks, Racial Metaphors”).

During the mid-20th century, photography became a vital instrument of political identity formation in the US. It is the aim of this course to investigate photography as a means of cultural meaning making in the US in the decades after WWII, focusing e.g. in particular on iconic photographs related to the Cold War but also the Civil Rights Movement. It is therefore the aim of this course to look at how the medium of photography was intertwined with the wider cultural context at this time.
This course will give students insights into photography as part of a societal discourse, historical sources, but also as aesthetic artworks.
The digital conference "Embodied Acts and American Photographs" (June 30 - July 2, 2022) featuring between 15 and 20 talks by internationally renowned scholars will be integrated in this course.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I:".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • This setting is active from 18.03.2022 00:00 to 30.04.2022 00:00.
    Enrolment is allowed for up to 1 courses of the admission set.
  • The enrolment is possible from 18.03.2022, 00:00 to 30.04.2022, 23:59.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
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