This course surveys the history of photography from its beginnings to the early twentieth century.
Although quite a lot of attention is given to individual photographers, the course is also designed
to acquaint students with such things as the business and institutions of photography, certain
commercial applications, and some of the key theoretical issues that have emerged in recent
scholarship and debate on the subject, as well as the cultural and social contexts of photography
and its practices.  Topics to be covered include:  landscape photography and the American west;
Civil War photography; the democratization of the portrait; photography as art; issues pertaining
to nudity, eroticism, and porn; the emergence and ideologies of "documentary" photography;
photography and modernism; photography and gender.   There will be visits to the IU Art
Museum to examine historical photographs in the collection as well as "hands-on" display and
discussion of daguerreotypes, tintypes, stereographs (the first 3-D images), and other early
photographic artifacts.  Readings assigned from textbook and course pack.  In-class activities to
include lecture, discussion, practice in "reading" and decoding images.  Work:  reading notes,
short to medium papers, quizzes.