Lesson 12: Photography and After
Art Appreciation · Unit 4 · Lesson 12 of 15 · ← L11 | L13 →
At a glance
| Session codes | U4·L12–U4·L17 |
| Days | 6 |
| Dates | Fri 2026-12-11 to Fri 2026-12-18 |
| Deliverable | A4: Unit 4 synthesis |
| Homework | Sontag, first essay, 30 min, set day 2, due day 3 |
These dates may shift once the school publishes the calendar for this period.
Goal
A4 is the last thing you submit this semester. It clears the roughly 1 January late-work cutoff by two weeks, which means nothing in this stretch can be handed in late. The synthesis is the second constellation of the year; the Unit 1 boards go back up on day four so you can measure this one against your first.
How it runs
- Day 1 · Fri 11 Dec ·
U4·L12— what the poor image gains: what circulation gives that quality takes. - Day 2 · Mon 14 Dec ·
U4·L13— photography and the claim to truth: why we believe photographs, and whether we should. Sontag reading set. - Day 3 · Tue 15 Dec ·
U4·L14— Sontag: photographing as an act on the world. - Day 4 · Wed 16 Dec ·
U4·L15— avant-garde and kitsch: test Greenberg’s line and find the place it stops holding. Unit 1 boards back on the wall. - Day 5 · Thu 17 Dec ·
U4·L16— A4 sits: build the constellation and write the argument, 40 minutes. - Day 6 · Fri 18 Dec ·
U4·L17— synthesis debrief: work returned with the criteria, and the one move that would have sharpened it.
Assessment
- A4 — Unit 4 synthesis constellation, 40 minutes. Marked on arguing across the whole unit, not a selection of favorites. The exact sitting date will be confirmed in class.
- Review is in-lesson on day six — the only in-lesson review this term, done while the work is still live.