If you have the time this weekend, please try to attend. It features the drumming talents of one of our very own!

6-7:00 pm at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College via Zoom (free)

"Join us for a virtual talk conversation between Refracting Histories artist Aaron Turner and photography scholar Shawn Michelle Smith. Turner and Smith will discuss Frederick Douglass as the most photographed person of the 19th century, as well as his prescient views on the power of photography for shattering false narratives. Smith is professor of visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois."

Photo by Joel Sternfeld, 1978

“Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it’s an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that’s going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There’s an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.” -- Joel Sternfeld, 2004

Why do we do the kinds of activities we do in this class? Consider the diagram below and think about which level of thinking is most common in and outside of our course:

If you missed class, you only have to complete one page/column of the first worksheet and then complete the occupational hierarchy worksheet for a total of two pages of homework.