Description
This is an untraditional course, as I will be offering it separately for both fall and spring; however, students are more than welcome to take both semesters in sequence for the year, as each semester will cover different material. Every week, a different photographic idea or genre will be traced from its earliest iterations to its present form through slide lectures and readings. And each week, students will respond with their own photographic work inspired by the visual presentations and readings. Topics include personal dress-up/narrative, composite photography/photographic collage, the directorial mode, fashion/art photography, new strategies in documentary practice, abstraction/“new photography,” the typology in photography, the photograph in color, and the use of words and images in combination. In the second semester, the emphasis will shift, as students choose to work on a subject and in a form that coincides with the ideas that they most urgently wish to express. No previous e