Photographic Truth: Reading Documentary Images

What is the relationship between photography and truth? Do we understand photographs as windows that reveal reality or as a representational practice, like other forms of art, that gives us a mediated view of the world? How do we apply these questions to documentary photography and photojournalism? This discussion–focused seminar will use Jun Fujita’s photographs alongside other well–known examples of documentary photography and photojournalism to explore questions of photographic meaning.

One session. E – $50, R – $55

Jasmine Alinder is Associate Dean of the Humanities and professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. As an historian of photography, she has published on documentary photography, including the book Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration. She has also cocurated an exhibition on the photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto at the DePaul Art Museum and served as lead academic advisor and content curator for “The Orange Story” (Japanese American WWII Confinement: A Cinematic Digital History Project).

Registration Information
Online registration opens at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, January 7.
Phone registration opens at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, January 8.
Early registration (E) prices are in effect from January 7 at 9:00 AM through January 24 at 4:00 PM. Regular registration (R) prices are in effect January 24 at 4 pm through the end of the term.

The Newberry offers a 10% discount to members, seniors, and students. Questions? Please see The Newberry Registration Information page.

This program is presented in partnership with The Newberry Library