Pose: The Model Century

In twentieth-century photography, masters ranging from Diane Arbus to Peter Hujar have worked in tandem with public and private figures to create images that are as much about the subject being "captured”, as it is about collaboration and reflecting the subject and thus the artists’ times. But this relationship has its historical antecedents, primarily in drawings from the previous century and before, which allowed for and encouraged intimacy. This course will look at drawings in the British Museum and elsewhere that support this claim.