Pathways in Photography

Catalog description

This course introduces students to exploration of lens-based and digital processes and techniques. Students develop critical thinking and analytical skills with and within the medium of photography. With a strong emphasis on ideation, research, experimentation, analysis, the course will prepare students to be careful and sensitive viewers and makers of lens-based and screen-based digital images. Thematically, students will explore seriality and narrative; portraiture and self-portraiture, appropriation, constructed image (pre and post digital photography), performance, and remix. Technically, the course explores a range of tools including digital cameras, retouching, color correction, basic composition in Photoshop, inkjet printing, and file organization. Students will produce original photographs in response to prompts and work toward the completion of a Final Project.