PHOTO 398 - PORTRAITURE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY
Professor: Deanna Bowen (she/her)
Email: deanna.bowen@concordia.ca
Course time: Monday, 6:30-10:30pm
Office hours: Flexible, by appointment
COURSE INTRODUCTION:
Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather today. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. Today, it is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present, and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
COURSE OUTLINE:
PORTRAITURE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY is a 3-credit studio course that offers students a chance to produce lens-based/inspired works that relate to the genre of portraiture and discourses on the representation of identity. This course orients portrait photography as a social practice, where the tension between limits of representation and contextual readings of images contributes to the production of meanings for the viewers and the artist. The course will offer students with existing perspectives in current and historical practices in photography and moving-image productions in the genre of portraiture.
- Teacher: DEANNA BOWEN