The Personal is Political: Feminism and Photography
WITH LAURA LARSON
April 18 - June 6, 2023
TUESDAYS, 6:30-8:30PM ET
ONLINE
LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
LIMITED TO 8 STUDENTS
CLASS FEE: $525
one-hour private portfolio review with Laura: $150 ($25 ofF)
ABOUT THE CLASS
The workshop will consider the political and poetic potentials of photography for feminist art making. Assignments will be formulated around a series of questions and concerns: How can we define feminist photography? How does it weave artistic form and content? How does it balance personal expression and political concerns? Assignments will engage documentary strategies, performance-based approaches, and working with appropriated materials to investigate the subjects of identity, representation, and activism. With readings and lectures, we will consider the continuity of feminist concerns and strategies through an examination of the historical and contemporary work as a source of inspiration.
HIGHLIGHTS:
• Assignments addressing different formal and conceptual approaches to a feminist content
• Bi-weekly group critique with Laura providing feedback and further resources for research
• Image presentations of historical and contemporary photographers
• Reading assignments to create context for discussions. In addition, an extensive bibliography will be provided to participants as a reference resource.
"Mining the intersection between politics and poetics, my work looks to photography’s history as a documentary practice to tell personal and sociocultural narratives. Writing is a key aspect of my practice. I’m interested in how to write as a photographer, that is, how to write alongside and through photographs."
Laura Larson is a photographer and writer based in Columbus, OH. She's exhibited her work extensively, at such venues as Art in General, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Centre Pompidou, Columbus Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, SFCamerawork, and Wexner Center for the Arts and her exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time Out New York. Her work is held in the collections of Allen Memorial Art Museum, Deutsche Bank, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Microsoft, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Hidden Mother (Saint Lucy Books, 2017), her first book, was shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo First Photo Book Prize and her second book, City of Incurable Women, was published in April 2022.