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This lecture course introduces students to multiple investigations of the history of photography. Emphasis will be given to the diverse cultural uses of photography from its invention to the present day. Such uses include: ethnography, political and social propaganda; educational and documentary photography; amateur photography; studio, advertising and fashion photography; and photography as a medium of artistic expression. Much attention will be paid to how photographs construct histories, as well as being constructed by them.

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