Photographs, Politics, and Perception
Instructor: Michelle Bogre
7:30 – 9:00 pm Eastern via Zoom
Six Wednesdays beginning October 30 (no class Nov. 27)
Course fee: $400
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Option to pay 25% deposit now with balance due one week before course starts.
Class Description
Given our increasing reliance on visual communication, photographs play an outsized role in forming our perceptions of politics and culture. Images shape national and international events and our understandings of them and we form our perceptions about candidates and issues often through the images we see of them.
Given that this is a political season, this six-week discussion class will first explore how photographs impact politics and political issues. It will begin with an historical overview of political imagery, and then during the first three weeks we will analyze political photographs published this election season. For the last three weeks, we will analyze how climate change and other current conflicts are presented, comparing national and international coverage. The class will be structured through lectures, discussions, and photographic analysis.
Michelle Bogre
Michelle Bogre, Professor Emerita, Parsons School of Design, taught almost every type of photography class and a special class she developed on copyright law for artists and designers during her 25-year career teaching She is also a copyright lawyer, documentary photographer and author of four books: Photography As Activism: Images for Social Change, Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century, Documentary Photography Reconsidered: History, Theory and Practice, and The Routledge Companion to Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century. She recently finished a second edition of Photography as Activism, which will be released in Fall 2024. She regularly lectures, writes and teaches workshops on copyright and photography. Her photographs and/or writings have been published in books, including the Time-Life Annual Photography series, The Family of Women, Beauty Bound, The Design Dictionary (Birkhauser Press, 2008) and photographer Trey Ratcliffe’s monograph, Light Falls like Bits. She is currently trying to finish a long term documentary project on family farms, published on Instagram as @thefarmstories.
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