ArtBistro

You’re a very inquisitive person... from wanting to know the price of gas to the cost of homes. I remember when you started a thread a while ago about this being your business and then asked the question what camera should you get... then shortly afterwards... you wanted to know the best school to go to for photography... ahh... the memories of the past year

I think I'm getting a little misty eyed with Bistro's first birthday and all

Sorry to be the droll academician that I often am in these forums.  I guess you can't take the teacher out of the classroom.  Your question I think would be fairly difficult to answer accurately as that is not the kind of data that I think would be compiled for historical purposes (speaking as an art historian).  But I will offer an educated guess based upon what I do know.  I would guess that photography as university/college curriculum is a fairly recent phenomenon probably dating back to the mid 20th century.  I say this for three reasons.  One, the old tired debate of is photography art was still very much alive and argued about even by this point in history.  However, it is also during this period that more progreesive schools were opening up their curriculums to "new" genres of "art."  I speak of film, performance, conceptual art, etc.  Photography probably rode on the coattails of this new more open POV.  Thirdly, photography once it was established as a subject in college/university in a lot of cases was not taught through the art departments but rather as a part of a journalism or communications program. It is is at some schools.  But again even these types of programs were fairly new in the university setting.  Photography, like art (painting, sculpture, etc) was taught in the master/apprentice approach from its early days and into the 20th century.  So, my guess as to a list would probably include most photographers whose mature works predate the mid-20th century.  Such people as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, Weegee, etc would fit into this catagory.  As a side note, I only ever had one photography class in my entire school history.  I was working on my BFA degree and took a photography class out of the journalism department.  However, I already knew most of what I was being taught but I had to take it as a formality to complete my coursework.  At the same time I was taking photography, I also ran the darkroom for the journalism department helping many poor hapless students learn the art of the darkroom and making sure they completed their assignments without having a nervous breakdown.

Nathan, no I'm not talking about you.....GP