Looking at Photography: Humanist
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Are you looking to develop your own practice? Do you want to understand what photography is or can be? This 8-week course will introduce you to the contemporary practice of photography through examples that link the historical, the contemporary, and the theoretical in a way that is dynamic, visual, and accessible to everybody.
Touching on major photographic genres such as landscape photography, portraiture, and conflict, it will look at some of the key photographers and ideas that have shaped how we see the world today and will also present a global, pluralist outlook on both the wonderful expressive and artistic qualities of the photographic image, as well as its darker side.
6: Humanist Photography – who’s in a portrait
August Sander’s People of the 20th Century is one of the great photography projects of all time. Consisting of portraits of German citizens organized into different social groupings, it is a project that seeks both to categorise and contain, as well as record the character of the German people in the first half of the twentieth century. This lecture will look at how photographic portraiture categorises, organizes, and socializes people in ways that are both good and bad. It will look at a range of photographers from around the world and how their images captured places, times and diverse political viewpoints through the images they made.
We do require a minimum number of registrants to run this course. In the event that we do not reach this two weeks before it starts we will provide a full refund.
Book for the whole series or for individual lectures. To see details of the full 8-part course visit: https://rps.org/LatP
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- Michael Pritchard
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This is an online event. The RPS will do its best to ensure that the event keeps to the published dates and timings and runs as planned. In the event of technical difficulties, the unforeseen unavailability of speaker(s), or in the unlikely event that the series or part thereof has to be cancelled all participants will be advised at the earliest opportunity. Dates will be re-arranged or a pro-rata refund made. No responsibility is accepted for any consequential losses.
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