 2015 - 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0821-6703-01 | History of Domestic Photography - Jewish and Arab | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The course deals with the history of local Jewish and Arab photography - starting from the last decades of the 19th century, when foreign photographers travelled to the Holy land and photographed the land and its people, through the birth and development of local photography, the use of photography as a tool for national purposes, and up until the recording of the creation of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. The course will focus on political and social contexts, and the way worldviews, ideologies and content found expression through a photographic prism, and how photography helped establish and reinforce ideologies, symbols, norms and beliefs in the collective consciousness. Among other things, the course will also address the interpreting of meanings, contexts, and content hidden in the photographic "text", seemingly "innocent'. The course will examine whether local photography created alternatives to Western perspectives and will discuss the following terms in comparison to other places in the world - colonial photography, enlisted photography, national photography, photography and the archive, photography and catastrophe.