Contemporary Views: Image Ecology in the Digital Age
This handout investigates the power of photography in modern society and the changing role of the image since Sontag published On Photography in 1977.
PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON 1: HANDOUT 4
1 class period (45-60 min)
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Philosophy
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
World > The Modern World
Themes > Globalization
- Literature and Language Arts
Place > Modern World
Place > American
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Historical analysis
- Interpretation
- Literary analysis
- Media analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Technology
- Textual analysis
- Visual analysis
- ELA Reading: 1-4, 7, 10
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2
- HSS Reading: 1-4, 6-10
CONTINUE THIS LESSON
Complete the lesson now with one of our Student Activity Options
- Assign the full text of Scott’s “On Digital Photography” and/or related chapters from Ritchin’s After Photography and Turkle’s Alone Together in advance, in place of handout excerpts. To deepen reflection, screen Ondi Timoner’s We Live In Public.
- Reflection and concluding questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers.