| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1: Introduction | ||
| 1 | Overview, Formal Analysis & How to Give Presentations | |
| Week 2: Technologies | ||
| 2 | Technologies | |
| 3 | Visit "Daguerre's American Legacy" at the MIT Museum | Field Trip to MIT Museum |
| Week 3: Likeness and Identity (Portraiture) | ||
| 4 | Early Portraiture & the Carte de Visite | |
| 5 | Photography, Identity, & Resemblance | Exhibition Review due |
| Week 4: Making Art I (Realism and Abstraction) | ||
| 6 | Photography & Painting | |
| 7 | Surrealism & Abstraction | |
| Week 5: Urban Exploration (Street Photography) | ||
| 8 | Documenting Urbanism | |
| 9 | People in the Streets | |
| Week 6: Making Art II (Institutions) | ||
| 10 | Visit to the Study Room of the Museum of Fine Arts | Field Trip to Museum of Fine Arts |
| 11 | Photography and the Art Market / Museum | Analysis Paper 1 due |
| Week 7: Photography and the Novel | ||
| 12 |
Photography and Literature Special Guest : Carrie O'Connor | |
| Week 8: Research and Investigation | ||
| 13 | Science & Society | |
| 14 | Virtual Visit of "Doc" Edgerton Archive | |
| Week 9: Tourism & Travel | ||
| 15 | Picture-taking & Picture Postcards | |
| Week 10: Spreading the News I (Photojournalism) | ||
| 16 | The Decisive Moment | |
| 17 |
Photography & the Press Special Guest: Jason Hill | Visual Analysis Paper 2 due |
| Week 11: Humanistic Photography | ||
| 18 | Aesthetics & Suffering | |
| Week 12: Spreading the News II (War Photography) | ||
| 19 | The Ethics of War Photography | |
| 20 |
Photographing War Special Guest: Lalage Snow | |
| Week 13: Sell, Sell, Sell (Photography in Fashion and Advertising) | ||
| 21 | Do Pictures Sell? | Visual Analysis Paper 3 due |
| Week 14: Photography and Law | ||
| 22 | Photographs as Witnesses | |
| 23 | Photography as Crime | |
| Week 15: Cataloguing the World (Photo Archives to Instagram) | ||
| 24 | Albert Kahn & The Archives de la Planète | |
| 25 | The Documentary Impulse Today | Revised Paper due |
