ART 262 - Encounters with Global Arts / Gao, Victoria

Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa.

Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904-1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine.

The first major art history survey textbook, written by a team of expert authors, with a global narrative in mind.

Written largely by historians of art and film, these essays emphasize visual analysis of the photographic and film media that carried the new woman's influential message.

The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 is among the world's most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes.

The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe's distinctively Orientalist vision of the Middle East.