Visuals: Self-Portraits by Lee Friedlander, John Coplans, Francesca Woodman, Nan Goldin, Samuel Fosso
Technical: How to make a self-portrait: self-timers, shutter release, assistance, shadows and mirrors.

Reading:
Introduction, Chapter 1&2, Richard Brilliant, Portraiture
http://www.matthewmarks.com/ (Goldin)
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/ (Coplans)
http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/artists/a_friedlander.html
http://home.eduhi.at/user/tw/woodmanlnk.htm

Assignment:
Self-portrait

Visuals: Lucas Samaras
Class wide critique of self-portrait images from the past week with an eye towards the technical.

Reading:
David Levi Strauss, "After You, Dearest Photography: Reflections on the work of Francesca Woodman," Francesca Woodman, Scale 1998.
Holland Carter, "When the I Is the Subject, and It's Always Changing," The New York Times, Sept, 12, 2003.
Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Aperture, 1982

Assignment:
Self-portrait

Visuals: Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann; Steiglez video.

Reading:
Arthur Ollmann, "Introduction," The Model Wife, The Museum of Photographic Arts, 2000.
Sandra Matthews and Laura Wexler, "Family Photographs and the Pregnant Pose," Pregnant Pictures, 2000 Routledge.
Jessica Todd Smith, "Time of Exposure; Nancy Newhall's Unpublished Book of Edward Weston's Nudes," Edward Weston: A Legacy, 2000, The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/photographerframe.php?photographerid=ph030-

Assignment: Intimate portrait - family or friends

Seminar class on selected readings TBA

The Other

Diane Arbus video, E.J. Bellocq, Edward Curtis, Katy Grannan

Reading:
Janet Malcolm, "The Real Thing," The New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997.
Joseph L. Ruby, Letter, in response to Malcolm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/special.html
Arthur Lubow, "Arbus Reconsidered," The New York Times, Sept. 14, 2003.
Jerry Saltz, "Only the Lonely," artnet.com

RESPONSE PAPER #1 DUE

Due: 6 images for critique (Group B)
Due: choice of photographer for class presentation.

Assignment:  Continue to make portraits

Reading: (Due after break)
Chapter 3, 4 Brilliant, Portraiture

Assignment: One page project proposal describing the photographic project you want to undertake.
Photograph those who are unlike you.

Due: paper and project proposals

Visuals: Nikkie S. Lee, Cindy Sheman, Phillipe Kwane Apagya, Julia Margaret Cameron, Samuel Fosso

Reading:
Arthur C. Danton: "Past Masters and Post Moderns: Cindy Sherman's History Portraits," Rizooli, NY, 1991.
Arthur C. Danton: "Photography and Performance: Cindy Sherman's Stills," Untitled Film Stills, Jonathon Lade, London, 1990
http://www.tonkonow.com/lee.html (Lee)
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1997/sherman
http://www.jackshainman.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=5 (Apagya, Luster, Fosso)
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a2026-1.html (Cameron)

Visuals: Judith Joy Ross, August Sander, Disfarmer, Deborah Luster

Reading:
Susan Kismaric, Judith Joy Ross, Museum of Modern Art.
Alfredo Lopez Austin, "Recurrent Letters," Images of the Spirit, Aperture, 1996.

RESPONSE PAPER #2 DUE

Slides: Lee Friedlander, Portraits

Reading:
R.B. Kitaj, "Still in Paradise of Still Photography," Lee Friedlander Portraits, Little Brown & Company, 1985.
"Maria: Photographs by Lee Friedlander," Photographers at Work, A Smithsonian Series.

Presentations (Groups 1&2)

Slides: Thomas Ruff, Reinke Dikstra

Reading:
Boris v. Brauchitsch, Thomas Ruff, Museum of Moderne Kunst, 1992.
"Thomas Ruff," Interview with Philip Pocock, www.jca.com

Presentations (Groups 4&5)

Reading:
Ann Wilson Lloyd, "The Hall of Mirrors Meets the House of Wax," The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2001.

Presentations (Groups 3&6)