External Programs

The focus of this course is basic digital photography skills including camera function; color correction; organizing and editing images and inkjet printing. Through assignments; discussion of readings; lectures on historic and contemporary artists using photography; and critiques; students examine how photographs function in order to engage in critical discourse with the medium. A fully manual; digital single lens reflex camera (DSLR) and portable hard drive are required.

This class will explore the role of the contemporary photographer as maker; critic; activist; and organizer. Students will survey a range of contemporary photographers as a catalyst for their own exploration/experiments. Assignments will encompass darkroom & digital processes; archival image appropriation; slideshow performance; installation/sculpture; image/text; and other strategies to enrich and broaden each student's developing photographic practice.