PHOTOGRAPHY

CRN	90278	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 101
Title	Introduction to Photography
Professor	Stephen Shore
Schedule	Mon 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Woods

An introduction to both the techniques and the aesthetics of black-and-white photography as a means of self-expression. Systematic instruction in darkroom techniques and weekly criticism of individual work provide the student with a solid basic understanding of the use of the camera as an expressive tool. The student must obtain within the first week of classes a camera (35mm or 2 1/4) with fully adjustable f/stops and shutter speeds and a handheld reflected light exposure meter. No previous photography experience is required. Admission is by portfolio (portfolio photographs do not have to have been printed by the student).

CRN	90279	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 103 A
Title	Basic Photography I
Professor	Stephen Shore
Schedule	Th 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Woods

This course is intended for beginning students who have had some previous photography experience. Admission by portfolio.

CRN	90280	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 103 B
Title	Basic Photography I
Professor	An My Lê
Schedule	Fr 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Woods

See description above.

CRN	90281	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 108
Title	Visual Language
Professor	Larry Fink
Schedule	Tu 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Woods

This course is for beginning students who have a command of darkroom techniques but need to develop their practice of photography as a means of self-expression. Through weekly criticism of individual work, the students will refine their understanding of the visual language of photography and expand their use of the camera as an expressive tool. Within the first week of class, students must obtain a 35mm camera with fully adjustable f/stops and shutter speeds. There will be no darkroom instruction or access. All students' work will be done with color slides. Admission is by portfolio.

CRN	90149	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 201 A
Title	The View Camera
Professor	Mitch Epstein
Schedule	Tu 1:30 pm -4:30 pm Woods

View cameras were the first cameras and were the primary photographic tool for the first half of photography's history. They offer unexcelled clarity, tonality, and image control. The operation of the view camera and advanced darkroom techniques are demonstrated in this course. The class explores the expressive potential of the conscious use of the camera's precise control of the image. Students are supplied with 4" x 5" camera outfits. Admission by portfolio.

Prerequisite: Photography 105 or 106.

CRN	90282	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 201 B
Title	The View Camera
Professor	An My Lê
Schedule	Wed 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Woods

See description above.

CRN	90150	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 203
Title	Color Photography
Professor	Barbara Ess
Schedule	Fr 1:30 pm -4:30 pm Woods

An introduction to the problem of rethinking photographic picture-making through the medium of color photography. Transparencies, color negatives, and type C prints are the technical areas explored. Interested students should bear in mind the higher costs of color materials. Admission by portfolio.

CRN	90446	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	PHOT 210
Title	Photography in America
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
Schedule	Tu Th 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm LC 206

American photography is an essential part of the visual record of the culture and was one of the first areas of artistic production in which the United States achieved international predominance. This lecture/discussion course examines American photographs in the context of the history, art, and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics will include daguerreotypy's resonance with transcendental philosophy, the indelible photographic image of the civil war, photography and the rise of American consumer culture, the progressive movement and photographic "muckraking," photography's place in Stieglitz's literary/artistic circle, and photography and American post-war social alienation.

CRN	90283	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 301 A
Title	Advanced Photography
Professor	Larry Fink
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Woods

To prepare the student for ongoing independent work, this course emphasizes the exploration of visual problems. At the heart of this exploration is asking good questions of oneself and one's work, seeing how other photographers and artists in other media have dealt with such questions, and "answering" the questions for oneself through individual projects.

Prerequisite: Photography 201 and 203.

CRN	90284	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 301 B
Title	Advanced Photography
Professor	An My Lê
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm -4:30 pm Woods

See description above.

CRN	90285	Distribution	F
Course No.	PHOT 305
Title	Digital Imaging
Professor	John Pilson
Schedule	Fr 1:30 pm -4:30 pm HDR 106

This is an introductory class in the use of Adobe Photoshop for image processing. The first third of the semester will be spent studying techniques for color management, scanning, image processing, and outputting. For the last two thirds of the semester students will pursue individual projects, which will be critiqued in class. This class is open to both photography students and others, but admission is by permission of the instructor. Lab is required.

CRN	90439	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH / PHOT 314
Title	The Body and its Image
Professor	Carol Ockman / Laurie Dahlberg
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 301

Cross listed: Art History

No subject in the history of representation has received more conflicted treatment or reception than the human body. Artists have interrogated it as the site of gender and sexuality, used it to express ideality and aberrance, celebrated it as the source of regeneration, and pushed beyond societal taboos in exploring it as the playground of decay and putrefaction. Seminar participants will study the Wests historical ambivalence toward the body and its representation, as expressed in art of the modern period (1780-2000). Beginning with the neoclassical heroic nude, we will study depictions of the body from the past two centuries that reflect the preoccupations and obsessions of their cultural moments in a particularly revealing way. Topics may include: Manets "Olympia," pornography and early photography, physical abjection in Symbolism and German Expressionism, the "oriental" body in 19th-century art, body art of the 1960s and 1970s, and obsessive treatments of the body by contemporary photographers. Readings will be drawn from philosophy, cultural criticism, and art history. Short writing assignments and oral presentations will culminate in a significant final research paper.

CRN	90435	Distribution	A
Course No.	PHOT 322
Title	Photography and the Modernist Creed
Professor	Luc Sante
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm OLIN 310

The development of photography might have been the single most important factor in the birth of modernism. It effortlessly beat academic painting at its own game, juxtaposed high and low elements of culture, emphasized the importance of process in art, and opened eyes to the incongruous and unexpected. This course will examine both photographic modernism and photography's relationship with other expressions of modernism, in a timeline from Maurice Denis's declaration of independence of the picture plane in the 1880s to the use of deadpan photographs by artists beginning with Ed Ruscha in the 1960s. In between we will cover the photomontage, rayograms, found objects, advertising, newspapers, documents, as well as photographers from Degas and Zola to Frank, Arbus, and Winogrand. There will be concurrent readings from relevant examples of literary modernism. Two papers will be required, one smaller and one bigger.

CRN	90432	Distribution	F
Course No.	ART / PHOT 323
Title	Fine Art Photography / Photographic Fine Art
Professor	Mitch Epstein
Schedule	Wed 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Woods

Cross-listed: Studio Art

This studio course is designed to provide conceptual and technical solutions for students interested in the continuously increasing role photography plays in the fine arts. Directed primarily at Studio Arts majors, the class involves no darkroom work. Students will use slides, Polaroids, found images, or digital output to make artworks employing photography. For the first several weeks, assignments will be given. Then, students will pursue individual projects.

CRN	90155
Course No.	PHOT SEM
Title	Senior Seminar
Schedule	Th 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Woods

The senior seminar is a requirement of all seniors majoring in photography. The seminar meets on a bi-weekly basis and carries no credit.