Alternate Influences

Catalog description

This course introduces students to a wide range of disciplines that influence image making. Students will develop a new vocabulary for discussing their own work as well as the work of those who came before them. They will develop a respect, through knowledge and experience, for practitioners of other aesthetic disciplines - artistic, cultural, and others - with regards to photography and, specifically, photojournalism. Students will explore various forms of literary, cinematic, poetic, and lyrical storytelling as influences on photojournalism.