Photography as Experience

Catalog description

Introduces photography as both a social phenomenon and a creative expression. Explores personal and cultural relationships to photography and investigates the role that images play in our everyday experiences. Through readings, lectures, shooting assignments, peer critiques and discussions, students practice making images as well as interpreting photographs as a visual language. Introduces photography basics of vision, light, composition, camera controls and digital workflow. Class readings and lectures address contemporary and historical photographers and various philosophical and technical approaches to the medium. Encourages students to use whatever cameras they have access to and likely already use on a regular basis, be it a DSLR or an iPhone.