GRADUATE LIBERAL STUDIES SUMMER 2016

ARTS 670 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOK Marion Belanger

This class is both an introductory survey of the photographic book and a studio course where students will make simple books, utilizing page sequences, scale and layout. You will utilize on- demand book printing services such as Mag Cloud, Blurb, and others. The photographic book will be studied while visiting collections Art Book collections at Wesleyan, along with others at nearby universities.

TEXTS:

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History Volume I, Phaidon Press

Parr and Badger, The Photobook, A History, Volume II, Phaidon Press, 2006

Online: http://www.artistsbooksonline.org http://cphmag.com https://www.photoeye.com

Reserve Books I will place books, including those listed above (to be checked out for 2 days) on reserve in the Art Library. You may borrow the other books for 4 days. Please request the book with its call number. The class reserve list can be acquired on line by going to Library> Reserve Lists.

VIDEO: Richard Benson, The Printed Picture, The Museum of Modern Art http://www.benson.readandnote.com/allvideo

Making books: In this class you will be making at least 2 books. Ordering a book to be printed on demand requires planning ahead in respect to time as it will take from 10-14 days before you have it in hand.

Libraries: We will make trips to a number of libraries, but I also expect you to explore book collections on your own, and to discuss books that inspire and inform your work as part of our critiques.

Critique: On-screen versions of your book will be utilized, but you must have a physical photographs to sequence during critiques. Later we will also focus on the materiality of your book – paper choice, scale, etc.

Presentation: Each student will study in depth one photographic book and present that to the class.

Grading: Your final grade is a letter grade based on the quality and timeliness of your work, and the thoughtfulness of your class participation. Evaluation: Visual assignments 30% Books 30% Class participation 20% Class presentation 20%

Attendance: Attendance in the course is crucial as we are completely a semester worth of work in just five weeks.

Some Books (see all the other books by these artists) Brassai, Paris by Night, 1933 Walker Evans, American Photographs, 1938 Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, 1952 Helen Levitt, Ways of Seeing, 1965 , The Americans, 1958 Danny Lyon, The Bikeriders, 1967 Ed Ruscha, Twenty Six Gasoline Stations, 1963 Larry Clarke, Tulsa, 1971 , Self-Portraits, 1970 Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus, 1972 Mike Mandel & , Evidence, 1977 Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places, originally published in 1982, The Book of Books Gilles Peress, Telex Iran, 1984 Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1985 John Gossage, The Pond, 1985 Robert Adams, Summer Nights, 1985 Sally Mann, Immediate Family, 1992 Martin Parr, British Food, 1995 Lewis Baltz, Industrial Parks ’s, William Eggleston’s Guide, 2002 Todd Hido, House Hunting, 2007 Tim Davis, Lots, 2002 Alec Soth, Sleeping by the Mississippi, 2004 Sophie Calle, Exquisite Pain, 2005 An-my Lê, Small Wars, 2005 Tanya Marcuse, Undergarments and Armor, 2005 Anne Carson, Nox, 2009 Christian Paterson, Redheaded Peckerwood, 2011 Janelle Lynch, Los Jardines de México, 2011 Anne Carson, Nox, 2009 Paul Graham, Shimmer of Possibility, 2010 Mickalene Thomas, Origin of the Universe, 2012 , This Equals That, 2014

BEFORE THE FIRST CLASS: Watch Benson, Talk 1 http://www.benson.readandnote.com/allvideo

BRING TO THE FIRST CLASS Bring in a favorite photo book from home or a photo sequence you’ve made.

WEEK ONE Class meeting 1 INTRODUCTION & Library Visit

Reading: Richard Benson, The Printed Picture: Part 5: “Early Photography in Silver” and Part 6: “Non- Silver Processes.” Parr and Badger. The Photobook, A History, volume I. Introduction and Chapter 1, “Topography and Travel: The First Photobooks.”

Visual Assignment: Make photographs in your home/yard. Bring in 10 5x7 images from the series to sequence in class. Due Class 3.

Class meeting 2 FIELD TRIP TO THE WATKINSIN LIBRARY AT TRINITY COLLEGE Exploration and science Anna Atkins. Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. 1843. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/ocean-flowers-anna-atkinss-cyanotypes-of-british- algae#/?tab=navigation William Henry Fox Talbot. The Pencil of Nature. 1844 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33447/33447-pdf.pdf Timothy O’Sullivan. United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. 1871-74. Gustaf Nordenskiöld. The Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado: Their Pottery and Implements, 1893. Contemporary: Edward Ranney, The Lines, Yale University Press, 2014) Mark Klett, Second View: The Rephoto- graphic Survey Project, with Ellen Manchester and JoAnn Verburg, University of New Mexico Press 1984 Third Views, Second Sights, A Rephotographic Survey of the American West, Museum of New Mexico Press 2004 Reading: Blair, Bob “William Henry Jackson’s “The Pioneer Photographer”: 66-79 (packet) Fox, William, Viewfinder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention Of Landscape: Chapter Two, Chapter Four (packet) Parr and Badger. The Photobook, A History, volume I, “Facing Facts: The Nineteenth-Century Photobook as Record” and “Photography as Art: The Pictorial Photobook” Assignment: Consider the photographic “archive” as you make or repurpose a collection of images. Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, Evidence http://larrysultan.com/gallery/evidence/ Mark Ruwedel http://galleryluisotti.com/artists/mark-ruwedel/images/

WEEK TWO Class meeting 3 The emergence of the commercial photobook / European and American avant-gardes Germain Krull. Metal. Librarie Des Arts Decoratifs, 1927. Blossfeldt. Urformen der Kunst. 1928 Alfred Steiglitz, Camera Work, 1903-1917 August Sander. The Face of Our Time, 1929 Moholy-Nagy. Malerei Fotografie Film. 1925 Paul Morand and Brassai. Paris de Nuit. 1933. Man Ray and Paul Eluard. Facile 1935 Henri Cartier Bresson. The Decisive Moment. 1952

Reading Parr and Badger, vol. 1: Chapter 4, “ Photo Eye: The Modernist Photobook,” Chapter 5, Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, and Walker Evans;” and Chapter 4 “A Day in the Life: The Documentary Photobooks of the 1930s; “ Lewis Hine, Berenice Abbott, Paul Morand and Brassai, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Weegee,” and Chapter 7, “Memory and Reconstruction: The Postward European Photobook”

Double page spreads. Go to the library and look at books studying the use of the double-page spread. Make copies of 4 spreads you find particularly effective. DUE NEXT CLASS Visual Assignment (for two weeks) Using August Sander as a base, create a series of portraits of a specific population.

Class meeting 4 Visit to the BEINECKE RARE BOOK LIBRARY Photo-textual documents of mid-20th century America Berenice Abbott. Changing New York 1939 Walker Evans. Let us now Praise Famous Men. 1941 Laura Gilpin. The Pueblos. A Camera Chronicle. Weegee. Naked City. 1945 Dorothea Lange. An American Exodus .1939 Roy de Carava and Langston Hughes. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. 1955 Visual Assignment: Portraits, cont.

Double page spreads. 4 double page spreads of your own Print 6 double page spreads -4 Images with equal sizes, white space around them (rather than full bleeds) ¼ inch extra for the gutter. No text. Create a relationship between the images considering the form and content of the images. -2 spreads using full bleeds. DUE NEXT CLASS

WEEK THREE Class meeting 5 Landscape . Yosemite and the Range of Light. Eliot Porter. The Place No One Knew. Robert Adams, From the Missouri West, 1980 Alex Soth. Sleeping on the Mississippi. 2004. Zoe Strauss. America. 2008 Barbara Bosworth and Anne Kelley: The Meadow, 2015 Shristina Seely: Lux, 2016

Reading Parr and Badger, The Photobook: a History, Volume I: Chapter 8, “The Indecisive Moment: the Stream-of-Consciousness’ Photobook. focusing on the overview, Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes, William Klein, Robert Frank, Aaron Siskind, Richard Avedon, Walker Evans, Danny Lyon, Gary Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Ralph Gibson, Larry Clark., William Eggleston. Assignment: Utilize stream of consciousness as described in Chapter 8 above to photograph a landscape that you know well. We will work with these images in class, focusing on image sequence and spreads as a vehicle of expression. You may work with the balance of the double- page spread and right or left facing image as part of your work with sequence. The sequence need not be narrative; it can be purely visual and/or conceptual.

Class meeting 6 CRITIQUE The social fabric Robert Frank. The Americans. 1958 Nicholas Dawidoff, New York Times Magazine. “The Man Who Saw America,” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/magazine/robert-franks-america.html William Klein. Life is Good and Good for You. 1956 Larry Clark. Tulsa. 1971 . Carnival Strippers. 1976. Gilles Peress. Telex Iran. 1983. Jim Goldberg . Raised by Wolves 1995 Jim Goldberg. Rich and Poor. 2014. Nan Goldin. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. 1986. Carrie Mae Weems. Selected Books LaToya Ruby Frazier. The Notion of Family. 2014. Reading Parr and Badger, Volume II: “Chapter 1: Mirrors and Windows: The American Photobook since the 1970s,” focusing on overview, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Davidson, Roy DeCarava, Slim Aarons, Les Krims, Robert Adams, Lee Friedlander, Gary Winnogrand, Eugene Richards, Harry Callahan, Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore, John Gossage, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Bill Burke, Alec Soth, Mitch Epstein Nicholas Dawidoff, New York Times Magazine. “The Man Who Saw America,” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/magazine/robert-franks-america.html

Assignment: Choose one photobook that you strongly respond to and use that as a model for this weeks assignment: Sequence, plus text. Due class 8.

WEEK FOUR Class meeting 7 The artists’ book movement Ed Ruscha. 26 Gasoline Stations. 1963 Ed Ruscha. Every Building on the Sunset Strip. 1966 John Baldassari Brutus Killed Cesar 1976 Richard Long. Selected books such as River Avon Book. 1979 Gerhard Richter, Eis. 1981. Reprint Walter Konig. 20ll Hamish Fulton. The Way to the Mountains Starts Here. 2002 Roni Horn. Dictionary of Water. 2001. (and other books) Roni Horn. Verne’s Journey (To Place). 1995 Sophie Calle. Take Care of Yourself. 2007

Reading Parr and Badger: Volume II, Chapter 4, “Appropriating Photography: The Artist’s Photobook” focusing on the overview and Gordon Matta Clark, , Andy Warhol, Richard Long, Christian Boltanski, Michael Snow, Hans Peter Feldman, Roni Horn, Gerhard Richter Assignment: Final Project

Class meeting 8 Contemporary strategies Doug Aitken. Diamond Sea. http://www.lannan.org/art/exhibition-program/doug-aitken-diamond-sea/ Marnix Goosens. Yonder. 2013 http://www.ideabooks.nl/9789491843013-marnix-goossens-yonder John Gossage. Nothing. 2014. https://vimeo.com/121924017] Rosangela Renno. A01 [COD.19.1.1.43] — A27 [S | COD.23]. 2013. http://josefchladek.com/book/rosangela_renno_-_a01_cod191143_a27_s_cod23 Melissa Cantanese, Dive Dark Dream Slow, 2012 Elizabet Tonnard, In This Dark Wood, 2013

Reading Chapter 9, “Home and Away: Modern Life and the Photobook,” focusing on the overview, Stephen Shore, Larry Sultan, Jim Goldberg, Rinko Kawauchi. Parr and Badger, Volume II, Chapter 8, “The Dusseldorf Tendency: The New Objective Photobook,” focusing on the overview, Bernhard and Hilla Becher, Thomas Struth, Rineke Dijkstra Assignment: Found/Appropriated. Due 10/28 Create a book using found or appropriated materials. Materials may be scanned, or photographed.

WEEK 5 Class meeting 9 The Artist/Publisher & Small Presses Surveys & Reviews Conscientious http://cphmag.com/archives/ Photo Eye http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/index.cfm http://blog.photoeye.com

Ron Jude http://www.a-jumpbooks.com/Home.html http://melaniephotoblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/interview-with-publisher-ron-jude-of.html http://www.ahornmagazine.com/issue_7/conversation_panar_jude/conversation_panar_jude.html

Jason Fulford http://jandlbooks.org/JL.info.html http://www.thegreatleapsideways.com/?ha_exhibit=hotel-oracle-a-conversation-with-jason- fulford http://www.artbook.com/iceplant.html

Ed Panar and Melissa Catanese http://www.spacescorners.com/about.html http://cphmag.com/conv-catanese/

Conveyor Editions http://www.conveyoreditions.com/shop

Class meeting 10 Final Critique