$17
weeklyor $135 for 8 classes
Introduction to Art History for High School: History of Photography
Completed by 14 learners
Ages 13-18
Live Group Course
Live video meetings
1x per week, 8 weeks
5-10 learners per class
50 min
What's included
8 live meetings
6 hrs 40 mins in-class hoursHomework
1 hour per week. Each week, students will respond to questions that correlate with the week's topics in 1-2 paragraphs. Further, a longer visual analysis will be assigned in Week 3 for practice evaluating photographs in a longer written format and a small research project will be assigned in Week 4, due the final week of class, where students will explore the works of a photographer that we will not cover at length in class in a five-paragraph essay.Assessment
Learner progress is assessed through in-class discussions, online discussions, and written assignments. Grades available upon request.Grading
includedClass Experience
Welcome to the History of Photography! In this class, students will learn about the development of photographic technologies and how the medium has been viewed by art and art history, from the nineteenth century earliest photographs to selfies and the iPhone today. Throughout the course, students will be exposed to various names in photographic history that brought the medium to the forefront of art in the twentieth century. Each week, students will engage in a fifty minute class that includes lecture and discussion time. After class, students will have a choice of homework assignment--either a written response or an artistic response to the week's materials. The course schedule can be found in the syllabus section below!
Learning Goals
--How to talk about and describe photography and photographic technologies, both verbally and in written form
--The characteristics of photography and how the medium has evolved
Syllabus
8 Lessons
over 8 WeeksLesson 1:
Introductions and Early Photographic Technologies
Students will learn about the earliest photographic technologies and how innovators had tried to fix images of the world around them for centuries prior to the invention of the earliest cameras! Technologies including the camera obscura, glass lenses, and more will be discussed leading to the development of the first camera and earliest surviving images. A large focus will be placed on the Daguerreotype and how images were sealed to metal plates during the late nineteenth century.
50 mins online live lesson
Lesson 2:
Cameras and Photojournalism
Week two of the course explores the first uses of photography in documenting the world and reality through photojournalism. In this class, students will discuss the development of more portable camera technologies, celluloid film rolls, and how photography was viewed as a way to capture the world in its purest form. We will look at a few iconic images for the earliest decades of photojournalism and discuss how reality was often staged and manipulated to get the shots the photographers desired.
50 mins online live lesson
Lesson 3:
Photographic Aesthetics and the Early 20th Century
Students will explore a few photographers who sought to use the medium to expand the idea of photography as art and to depict uncommon subject matter. Artists like Ansel Adams, renowned for his nature photography, Diane Arbus and her photographs of marginalized communities, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, considered the father of candid photography, will be the focus of the class. Each photographer approached the world around them in a unique way and played with photographic technology!
50 mins online live lesson
Lesson 4:
Photography and Crisis
Week four of the class explores the use of photography across two major world events--the Great Depression and World War II. In class, students will analyze iconic images from these events, including the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima, the navy kiss in Times Square, and Dorthea Lange's Great Depression photography and discuss the impact of these images on international audiences and why they are controversial today. Students will evaluate the importance of photojournalism in a time of crisis.
50 mins online live lesson
Other Details
Learning Needs
This class is ideal for those with unique learning needs. Students will be provided with study guides after each class for continued support and have access to all recordings for each week. Students can opt out of assignments if preferred.
Parental Guidance
Photographs depicts may contain nudity or violence, specifically during weeks where warfare is discussed (nothing heavily graphic will be shown but images may be upsetting to some). I will always provide an in-class warning in case a learner wants to step away for a moment.
Language of Instruction
English (Level: Pre-A1)
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
For this class, materials will be utilized from a number of academic sources compiled from my own educational experiences and study, including museum publications, academic journals, lectures and conferences, and artist publications and websites when applicable. Students will be taught from a decolonized, inclusive perspective. Examples of source materials include John Berger's "Ways of Seeing," Beaumont Newhall's "The History of Photography", Susan Sontag's "On Photography", and other sources by authors like Jae Emerling, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and more!
Meet the teacher
Teacher expertise and credentials
Master's Degree in History from University of Colorado at Boulder
I have been teaching art history for seven years now and have a Master's Degree in Art History. I started my career teaching at the university level and in museums and have been teaching art history on Outschool since 2018. I developed this introductory series for middle and high schoolers so that they could have a foundation for talking about the arts earlier than at the college level and be exposed to history in a new way!
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