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Courses

  • Studio Courses
    Photography 101
    Introduction to Photography
    An introduction to both the techniques and the aesthetics of black-and-white photography as a means of self-expression

    Photography 103
    Basic Photography
    This course covers the same material as Photography 101, but is intended for beginning students who have had some previous photography experience.

    Photography 105
    Photographic Seeing
    An exploration of the visual grammar of photography and how it clarifies a photograph's meaning and the photographer's intent.

    Photography 106
    Light
    This course deals with the exploration of found light and artificially detonated light (strobe).

    Photography 201
    The View Camera
    The operation of the view camera and advanced darkroom techniques are demonstrated in this course.

    Photography 203
    Color Photography
    An introduction to the problem of rethinking photographic picture-making through the medium of color photography.

    Photography 301-302
    Advanced Photography
    To prepare the student for ongoing independent work, this course emphasizes the exploration of visual problems.

    Photography 305
    Digital Imaging
    This is an introductory course in the use of Adobe Photoshop for image processing. Emphasis will be placed on exploring digital photography from a technical and a theoretical perspective.

    Photography 401-402
    Senior Project
    Working with a faculty advisor, all senior photography majors complete a yearlong tutorial culminating in an exibition.
  • History Courses
    Photography 110
    History of Photography
    This course surveys the history of photography from its earliest manifestations to the 1970s and considers photography's applications, as art, science, historical record, and document, among others.

    Photography 213
    Qualities of Life: Photography and the Human Condition
    The multifarious tradition of photography as social documentation is examined from the early nineteenth century to the present.

    Photography 214
    The Portrait and Its Guises in the Modern Period
    In addition to considering the ontology of the portrait, this lecture traces historical developments in portraiture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The interplay between photography and painting forms the core of the material.

    Photography 215
    Photography and Performance
    The course investigates the objectives, methods, and outcomes of photography in various performative modes at several moments in the history of photography, including Victorian tableaux photography, fin-de-siecle pictorialism, the surrealism of the 1930s, and postmodern stagings and constructions.

    Photography 310
    From Human Documents to the Image World: Photography, 1950-1990
    In the decades after World War II photography's social and artistic roles changed in many ways. This turbulent period in the history of photography is the focus of this intensive seminar.

    Photography 312 A
    Travel and Exploration in Nineteenth-Century Photography
    A survey of the far-ranging work of the peripatetic photographers of the nineteenth century

    Photography 320
    Literature and Photography
    This seminar follows the parallel paths of photography and literature as their forms and objectives shift during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

    Photography 322
    Photography and the Modernist Creed
    This seminar considers photography in its "high modernist" era (1900-1940) as a medium shaped by the key texts and events of modernism, such as the writings of Marx, Freud, and Bergson and World War I.

    Photography 340
    Photography Exhibitions
    An examination of the history and practice of the photographic exhibition

    Photography 410
    Contemporary Photography and Critical Theory
    This seminar investigates and evaluates contemporary photographic practices such as the use of appropriated and media images, alteration or manipulation of photographic prints, and the use of photography as one part of a larger installation or in a conceptual or performance context.

Requirements

  • Program Requirements
    Photography students are expected to take and pass one studio course in photography each semester; Photography 113, History of Photography; at least one upper-level history of photography course; and one additional art history and visual culture course. Moderation occurs at the end of the fourth semester: by that time photography majors should have earned at least 60 credits and taken Photography 113 and at least two semesters of photography studio classes.
  • Moderation Requirements
    The student meets with a Moderation board, presenting two short papers and a portfolio of 30 prints, 8” x 10” or larger. The portfolio demonstrates to the Moderation board whether the student can see and think photographically, can communicate his or her perceptions and feelings in pictures, and possesses the technical skills required for expression.
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