Advanced Photography: Skills and Concepts

Catalog description

This course covers the development of various lens-based skills, with attention given to issues of representation and aesthetics within contemporary art discourse. Students must have completed both a 1000-level course and a 2000-level course in photography (or equivalent) and are expected to enter the class with an intermediate level of understanding of camera operations and printing techniques. Through technical exercises, students will learn targeted methods and tools catered to advancing their conceptual projects. These skills include, but are not limited to, advanced darkroom processes, experimental chemical processes, large format film cameras, advanced lighting, advanced photoshop, large format scanning, large format printing, video work, performance, and installation. Although there is a large amount of technical ground covered in this course, everything presented is intended to be a tool used for creative expression.