This course will bring together image making histories, concerns and practices, based on photographic techniques and technologies. The course will comprehensively introduce proto-photographic methods and re-trace those with modern and contemporary material as well as some nineteenth and twentieth century theories of photographic image-forms. Considering its interdisciplinary nature, the media of photography will be introduced and explored through its contemporary usage as well as creative possibilities bring in perspectives from Art History, Visual Culture and Art as Practice.
rakhi.peswani@ashoka.edu.in