This introductory course directly and productively engages with the photographic situation, grounded in its history and its social and aesthetic practice. Exploring notions of reality and representation, history and politics through photographic practice and experimentation, students will investigate technical and aesthetic approaches to photography as medium, message, and technology.

Antirequisite(s): Studio Art 2652B; the former MIT 3665B if taken in 2016-17, 2018-19, the former MIT 3663B if taken in 2022-23.

Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or Year 4 of a FIMS module.

Extra Information: 3 hours.