Fashion Photography

Catalog description

Students will learn the primary technical, aesthetic, and stylistic photographic techniques and knowledge required for the creation, presentation, and marketing of professional fashion photographs. The course will additionally address the relevant business practices associated with the field. Other essential material covered in the course will involve student research culminating in presentation projects relating to the history, aesthetics, and ethics of fashion photography. The course features a problem based learning approach where students and instructors work collaboratively to develop five student learning-problems. These problems or projects will address the major teaching and learning topics under a variety of conditions designed to reinforce the subject matter, encourage flexibly creative thinking, and allow students to pursue the subject with greater critical depth and awareness. Like fashion itself, fashion photography is subject to constant aesthetic, stylistic, and cultural change. To address these problems practitioners need to develop an awareness of style and trends in both the fashion industry and the fashion publishing industry, which are dependent on photography for marketing and advertising. Photography additionally adds historic value as a stylistic and creative archive for these industries. Fashion photographers must have the skills and mindset necessary to constantly learn and experiment with new techniques, which keep their work technically proficient and stylistically innovative and fresh. This problem based learning approach will allow the course to remain dynamic and address, in real-time, changing issues relevant to the industry and our students.