“A painter’s eye will often be arrested where ordinary people see nothing remarkable. A casual gleam of sunshine, or a shadow thrown across his path, a time-withered oak, or a moss-covered stone may awaken a train of thoughts and feelings, and picturesque imaginings.” William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature.

"It is a different nature that speaks to the camera than speaks to the eye." — Walter Benjamin.

“In the illustrated magazines, people see the very world that the illustrated magazines prevent them from perceiving” –Kracauer in “Photography”

Discuss the ways in which art photography has challenged or critiqued photographic conventions.

In what ways was photography used as a tool in social movements?

Discuss the fraught relationship between photography and the law.