Course Description
Advanced Studio Practices in large format photography. Includes advanced techniques, historical and contemporary practices, with emphasis on portfolio development utilizing a large format camera.
Athena Title
LG FORMAT PHOTO II
Prerequisite
ARST 3220
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course is designed for students to do advanced research utilizing the tools of large format photography. Through advanced technical exercise in shooting film and printing in the darkroom and digital workflows, students will learn advanced techniques of working with large format cameras. Emphasis in the course will be on portfolio development through proposed project design and implementation. Classroom discussions, slide lectures, gallery visits, research projects and critiques will expose the students to the conceptual components and contemporary trends in large format photography. Students will be required to engage assignment topics and present their work in the context of historical and contemporary practices within the medium. In presenting his/her photographs, each student will be expected to assimilate and analyze the topic of the assignment and present the work orally as well as through various modes and media, including the use of appropriate technology. Students will be expected to engage other students' work with dialogue that is stylistically appropriate and mature. During critiques students will learn to communicate for academic and professional contexts, supporting a consistent purpose and point of view while considering and engaging opposing points of view. Students will be required to interpret inferences within each photograph being discussed, developing subtleties of symbolic and indirect discourse.
Topical Outline
Technical exercises in advanced techniques for camera handling, film exposure, film development, and printing through both darkroom and digital workflows. Sustained personal portfolio development through project design and implementation practices. Projects may include special techniques, including advanced studio lighting, non-traditional printing techniques, mixed media applications incorporating photography, print finishing and presentation, writing artist statement, and submitting work for exhibitions. Regular critiques on developing work. Regular in-class assisted lab work. Slide lectures, gallery visits, and conceptual reading/writing on contemporary practice.
Syllabus
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