The ebbs and flows of photographic style. From the rise of the "Selfie" to the resurgence of the tintype, explore the fads and movements that define different eras of visual culture.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to photographic trends |
| Geographical spread of photography |
| 2 | The global spread of photography |
| Geographical spread of photography |
| 3 | Cartes de visite: Backs: Geographical spread |
| The end of commercial analog photography |
| 4 | The end of commercial analog photography |
| 5 | Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness - Photography at the End of the Analogue Era |
| 6 | John Cyr: Developer Trays |
| The rise of digital photography |
| 7 | The rise of digital photography |
| The rise of AI |
| 8 | The institutional acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) imagery |
| 9 | Visual truth and AI images |
| 10 | Ansel Adams: "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" (taken 1941) and an AI variant by James Danziger (2025-2026) |
| The rise of photography departments within museums and art galleries |
| 11 | A history of photographic galleries |
| Museums |
| 12 | Museums and photography |
| 13 | Museums and the amateur |
| Challenges to professional photography |
| 14 | Reasons Why Professional Photographers Cannot Work for Free |
| Stock photography |
| 15 | Challenges to stock photography |
| Facial recognition |
| 16 | Facial recognition and historical photographs |
| The New Pictorialism |
| 17 | Examples of the New Pictorialism |
| The fragmentation of genre |
| 18 | Genre studies: Introduction |
| 19 | The fragmentation of genre |
| 20 | Photographic genres and intention |
| Aesthetics and photography |
| 21 | The aesthetics of conflict |
| Disjunctions |
| 22 | Temporal disjunctions |
| 23 | Technical disjunctions |
| 24 | Periods, styles, movements and disjunctions |
| Gradations of content |
| 25 | Observation, intervention and creation |
| Non-canonical photography |
| 26 | Non-canonical photography |
| Series |
| 27 | The tyranny of series, typologies and editions |
| The ubiquitous camera |
| 28 | Ubiquitous Photography |
| 29 | The contemporary street and surveillance |
| 30 | Trevor Paglen: Aerial photographs of US government agencies (2014) |
| 31 | Drone-borne photography |
| 32 | Introduction to EXIF and C2PA |
| The quest for novelty |
| 33 | The continual quest for novelty |
| 34 | New forms of photographic light based imagery |
| 35 | Intentions and motivations |
