Author: lisa.waananen

This week is about social and technological influences on depictions of race in U.S. photojournalism, with a focus on the 1960s Civil Rights movement and today.

This week is about photographing protests and demonstrations, which happen in many different places for many different reasons. But nearly all protests allow us to see conflict, which makes protest photos powerful.

This week is about the “Golden Age of Photojournalism” in the United States and how innovations in visual narratives still influence visual culture today.

This week we’re at what’s sometimes called the “colonial lens” and the ways photography is related to global and cultural power structures.

This weekly post has everything you need for completing this week’s self-paced content and readings, plus an outline at the end for what’s covered during class meetings. This week we’re looking at war photography — its impact on how people view conflict and also its impact on the photographers who choose this work. The reading […]

This week we’re looking at the split-second decisions of photography, including the concept of “the decisive moment” and how this applies in sports photography and breaking news.

This week we’re covering the basics of how photography works, which involves light and time. We’ll look at composition techniques you can use in your own work and use to describe why certain photographs are visually compelling. We’ll also look at light and the components of exposure.