Photography in England Interest Session

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Photography in England is a program led by Dr. David Horan to Canterbury, England, which covers topics of English photography and photographic history. Please join us for this interest session to learn more about this program.

Photography in England Description: Photography made its entry to the world of visual arts in 1829. Shortly thereafter, photographers began to make impressions of their immediate environments. Soon afterwards, photographers spread throughout the world documenting the wonders of the world in Egypt, the Middle East, and India. The question arose as to whether we should make the camera “see” as our eyes see the world, or whether we should allow the camera to “see” the world in its own particular way. In this course, we will be hosted by The University of Kent. We will travel to various towns and historically significant sites throughout England where you will gain valuable insights into the heritage, culture, and artistic aesthetic of the photographic medium.

Once in Kent, the independent study class in photography and photo history will be an opportunity to further expand your understanding of historical and contemporary digital photographic techniques through a project-driven and conceptually significant integration of early photographic landscape and portraiture aesthetics with a contemporary medium. You will be studying specific works of photographic art by such photographers as W.H.F. Talbot, Peter Henry Emerson, Henry Peach Robinson, Frederick Evans, Julia Margaret Cameron, Francis Frith in London, and others. Students will re-interpret these works through the use of modern digital techniques. The objective is to develop a new understanding of contemporary and historical art practices, and construct an aesthetic discussion between the two through the digital medium of photography.