Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography with Jennie Hirsh – G25040504
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This week-long course focuses on this history of twentieth and twenty-first century photographic portraiture. In considering how photography can offer an index of not only individual identity but also broader social milieu and experience, we will study artists ranging, on the one hand, from modernists Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Dorothea Lange, August Sander, Alfred Stieglitz, to, on the other hand, more contemporary practitioners, including Laura Aguilar, Dawoud Bey, Rineke Dykstra, Nan Goldin, Barbara Kruger, Dorothea Lange, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yasumasa Morimura, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Sophie Rivera, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, and more.
Keynote: At Work by Annie Leibovitz is presented the last day of class, May 3rd.
Instructor
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Jennie HirshBased in Philadelphia, Jennie Hirsh is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a BA in classics (UPenn), an MA in Italian (Middlebury), and MA and PhD degrees in History of Art (Bryn Mawr). The recipient of numerous research fellowships—including a U.S. Fulbright to Italy and a Gladys Krieble Delmas grant—she has studied, conducted research, and taught in various cities throughout Italy for more than three decades.
Jennie has authored numerous book chapters, exhibition catalogue essays, and critical reviews on artists and filmmakers, such as Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Yinka Shonibare, Regina Silveira, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. She is co-editor, with Isabelle Loring Wallace, of Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (Ashgate/Routledge, 2011) and Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art (Routledge, 2023). She co-curated Invisible City (2020), a four-venue exhibition focused on visual culture produced between 1956 and 1976 in Philadelphia. Jennie is currently completing a monograph on self-representation in the painting and writing of Giorgio de Chirico, and her research areas also include fascist aesthetics, past and present, as well as visual culture and the holocaust, both subjects of future book projects under development.
Since 2009, Jennie has directed MICA’s summer travel intensive program focused on the history of the Venice Biennale of Art from its inception in 1895 to the present. When she is not teaching, writing, or doing research, she enjoys spending time with her golden retriever Tulip, who loves exploring. An enthusiastic teacher and occasional tour guide, Jennie enjoys offering online and in-person seminars on the history of art, architecture, and exhibitions for academic institutions and the general public.