Advanced Alternative Processes

Catalog description

Despite the convenience of modern photographic technology, many artists prefer to enrich their methods with the tactile wonders of the traditional processes that this course introduces. Part two of Alternative Processes with 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. Students are expected to share ideas, techniques and their photographic experimentations.