Photography: Material Studies III

Catalog description

Despite the convenience of modern photographic technology, many artists prefer to enrich their methods with the tactile wonders of traditional processes. This course has a finer focus on project-based work. Explores salt print, 3-color gum bichromate, wet plate collodion, albumen printing processes, daguerreotypes, as well as 21st-century alternative processes. Provides new opportunities for digital/analog hybrid processes and alternative ways of presentation, such as videos, photo sculptures and performances. Involves intensive studio work, lecture and critique sessions. Students must have a film or digital camera to produce new images for the projects assigned in this course. Also requires a basic understanding of Adobe Photoshop for digital negative outputting. Expects students to share ideas, techniques and their photographic experimentations.