The Art and Practice of Street Photography with W. Scott Olsen
Street photography is a way to capture and examine the serendipitous public moments that reveal something true about humanity. This class will look at the art form, its history, practices and issues, and will allow an opportunity to give the form a try.
TIME & LOCATION
Mar 16, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CDT
ONLINE class via Zoom
ABOUT
The Art and Practice of Street Photography with W. Scott Olsen
- This is a 4-meeting virtual class using the Zoom platform
- Sundays, March 16, 23, 30, April 6
- 1-2:30 pm CT
- Our classes are taught asynchronously, which means you can watch a recording of the class later if you miss the live session
Street Photography is part documentary, part photojournalism, part anthropology and a deeply personal way of examining our everyday lives. Including portraits, images of architecture, current events, and the ordinary ways we move about our towns, these pictures are spontaneous captures of our public lives. However, the genre has a complicated set of issues that go with it--everything from aesthetics, privacy, exploitation, exposition, and bias. This class will examine historical and contemporary street photography images as ways to prompt a discussion of the issues, and we will have an opportunity to practice the art itself to deepen our understanding.
INSTRUCTOR BIO
W. Scott Olsen is a professor of English at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. The author of 12 books of narrative nonfiction, his photographs have been published and shown in galleries internationally.
HND VALUE STATEMENT
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or Humanities North Dakota. However, in an increasingly polarized world, we at Humanities North Dakota believe that being open-minded is necessary to thinking critically and rationally. Therefore, our programs and classes reflect our own open-mindedness in the inquiry, seeking, and acquiring of scholars to speak at our events and teach classes for our Public University. To that end, we encourage our participants to join us in stepping outside our comfort zones and considering other perspectives and ideas by being open-minded while attending HND events featuring scholars who hold a variety of opinions, some being opposite of our own held beliefs.
Humanities North Dakota classes and events are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities
TICKETS
Class Fee
Public University classes are open to all registrants, not just HND members. Classes are free for members (use coupon code) and low-cost for nonmembers. If interested, it's easy to become a member: humanitiesnd.org/donate
$25.00
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