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23-1115 Black and White Photography
This course is an exploration of black and white darkroom photography. Students build on the camera skills introduced in 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I while investigating 35mm film exposure and printing in the black and white darkroom. A range of photographic materials, processes, and techniques will be covered. Aesthetics of the analogue black and white photography, coupled with historical and contemporary practices are studied through lectures and gallery visits. Please consult the department website at Columbia College Chicago for updated information about acceptable cameras.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I
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23-1116 Color Photography
This print-based course will offer an introduction to analog color materials, the color darkroom and the aesthetics, technique and theory of color photography. It will review basic camera usage, exposure and metering, and formal strategies for making color photographs. Through a sequence of assignments and a final project this course will reinforce the importance of light as color from vision to print; including negative exposure, darkroom printing, and the way content is shaped by color and light in the final photographic print.
3 Credits
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23-2100 Color & Light in Photography
This course builds upon skills learned in previous courses and further explores the technical, conceptual, and aesthetic uses of color photography. It is an advanced, in-depth examination of how color theory and various color strategies can be used in a sophisticated way to formally shape the content of a photograph. This print-based class is open to students working in both analog and digital processes and will culminate in a self-directed project that uses color and light in clear and meaningful ways.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1120 Photography II and 23-1121 Photography II Workshop and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design or 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design or 23-1116 Color Photography and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design
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23-2110 Advanced Black and White Photography
Advanced black and white darkroom techniques offer distinctive opportunities to make creative photographs. In this course students will experiment with a variety of analog materials and processes to achieve sophisticated creative and technical controls. Split filter printing, toning, archival processing and other methods will be employed to render desired effects. In the last part of the semester, students will apply these techniques to the printing of photographs in a self-directed project.
3 Credits
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23-2120 View Camera I
Film-based course, building upon skills learned in previous classes, introduces the use of the view camera and its movements to control perspective and manipulate the plane of focus in large format photography. These technical skills will be developed within a context of historical, critical, and conceptual photographic conventions.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I and 23-1120 Photography II and 23-1121 Photography II Workshop or 23-1115 Black and White Photography and 23-2201 Digital Imaging I
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23-2125 View Camera: Advanced
This course, building upon skills learned in View Camera I, requires that students develop a self-directed, semester-long project exploiting the view camera’s unique abilities in order to further refine skills and expand understanding of large format photography.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2120 View Camera I
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23-2201 Digital Imaging I
Course introduces students to computer tools that manipulate and enhance photographic images. Students learn the skills to correct, retouch and enhance varied input in order to create high-quality digital output utilizing the industry standard for digital image manipulation.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1120 Photography II and 23-1121 Photography II Workshop OR 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II COREQUISITES: 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design
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23-2202 Foundations of Digital Imaging
Course, building upon skills learned in previous classes, introduces students to technical vocabulary and computer tools that manipulate and enhance photographic images. Students learn the skills to correct, retouch, and enhance varied input in order to create high-quality digital output utilizing the industry standard for digital image manipulation. This course addresses aesthetic issues in digital photography and examines critical contexts for looking at and making photographs.
6 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1120 Photography II and 23-1121 Photography II Workshop COREQUISITES: 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design 23-1121 Photography II Workshop
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23-2220 Digital Printing Workshop
Two-day workshop course is designed for photography students who have completed Digital Imaging I or Foundations of Digital Imaging, and want to improve their digital printing skills. High-end scanning, color management, types of paper, monitor profiling, and image enhancement techniques in relation to input and output are discussed and demonstrated. Students make both black and white and color prints during this intensive workshop.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I or 23-2202 Foundations of Digital Imaging
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23-2300 Introduction to Lighting
Building upon skills learned in previous classes, this foundation course introduces artificial light in the studio and on location. Assignments include studio and location lighting. Hand held light meters are introduced. Fine art,commercial and photojournalism applications are equally emphasized.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1120 Photography II and 23-1121 Photography II Workshop or 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II COREQUISITES: 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 23-2201 Digital Imaging I
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23-2518 Sports Photography Workshop:
This intensive weekend workshop serves as a general introduction to sports photography as practiced by newspaper, magazine and team staff photographers. Students will acquire a working knowledge of aesthetic and technical considerations involved in producing professional action and feature pictures at sport events. Discussions of equipment selection and examples of game situations will teach professional sports photography techniques. Students will be assigned and credentialed to cover one college, high school, or minor league game.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II OR 23-1120 Photography II AND 23-1121 Photography II Workshop
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23-2650 History of Photography I
This course examines the emergence of photography and the medium’s role in both reflecting and shaping the cultural, social, political, economic, and scientific context of modernity from 1839-1920. Emphasis will be placed on acquiring knowledge about this historical period - especially early photographic technologies, the critical response to photography, and the diverse applications of the medium - while also drawing parallels between this history and contemporary issues. Students will be introduced to various methods of historical investigation through a balance of lectures, discussions, field trips to view historic photographic objects, primary and secondary source readings, group projects, writing assignments, and/or tests.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern or 22-1105 Introduction to Visual Culture and 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern or 22-1105 Introduction to Visual Culture and 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern or 22-1105 Introduction to Visual Culture and 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern or 22-1105 Introduction to Visual Culture
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23-2655 History of Photography II
This course examines photography’s central role in both reflecting and shaping the cultural, social, political, economic, and scientific context from 1920 to the present. In addition to examining the medium’s major movements and practitioners within this context, the course will also emphasize the developing history, theory, and criticism of the medium and its relationship to modernism and postmodernism in other media. Students will be introduced to various methods of historical investigation through a balance of lectures, discussions, field trips to view historical photographic objects, primary and secondary source readings, group projects, writing assignments, and/or tests.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2650 History of Photography I
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23-2717 Photography Studies Abroad: The Netherlands
This three-to-four week course introduces students to the international practice of photography. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance or paper during the period of travel is required. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application.
3 Credits
GA
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I
Requirements Department Permission
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23-2718 Photography Studies Abroad: Southeast Asia
This three-to-four week course introduces students to the international practice of photography. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance or paper during the period of travel is required. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I
Requirements Department Permission
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23-2730 Pinhole Photography
Course examines pinhole photographic practices from 19th Century aesthetics to contemporary applications. Pinhole camera construction utilizing a variety of materials is explored in an environment of active experimentation.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1120 Photography II and 23-1121 Photography II Workshop OR 23-1115 Black and White Photography
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23-3202 Digital Imaging II
Building upon skills learned in previous classes, this course expands student’s knowledge using extended digital controls to manipulate and enhance photographic images. Emphasis is placed on specialized image manipulation. The student will create a cohesive final project of professional quality utilizing these new tools supported by critical discussions, readings, and research.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I or 23-2202 Foundations of Digital Imaging 23-2110 Advanced Black and White Photography
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23-3203 Topics in Digital Imaging
Advanced level course examines a specific topic, theme, or idea in contemporary digital photography each semester. The student will create and implement a self-directed, extended digital project aided by theoretical and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-3230 Advanced Retouching and Compositing
This course introduces students to advanced retouching and compositing techniques and skills used by professionals in many aspects of current photographic practice. Advanced computer tools, theories of image construction and enhancement, and the moral and ethical implications surrounding image manipulation will be addressed in this advanced level class. Students will work on provided image files for weekly assignments that are assessed by review and classroom critique. Students will apply these skills to individual, high-quality final projects.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting AND 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-3275 Website Publishing
This course provides the necessary technical skills to create websites that support the publishing and distribution of photographs and portfolios on the Internet. Students will learn website construction, image optimization, information architecture, design principles and produce photography-based websites that communicate effectively and have high visual appeal.
3 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I or 23-2202 Foundations of Digital Imaging
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23-3276 Web Presence
Building on the technical language learned in Website Publishing, students will learn advanced, inventive and unique ways to use the Internet to further their own artistic exploration. In doing so, students will also learn how to bring audiences and viewers to their work. Through the creation of different types of sites, students will explore the web as portfolio, an artistic space, and a site of commerce and how social media can influence all of these viewing spaces.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3275 Website Publishing
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23-3300 Commercial Photography
In this advanced level studio course students examine photographic illustration for commercial applications. Professional studio practices are analyzed and applied. Advanced applications of medium and large format cameras and digital capture will be explored within a studio context.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting
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23-3400 Commercial Photographer/Art Director
Advanced level course is designed to simulate the real-world assignment pairing of art directors and photographers. Art and Design and Photography students work in creative teams to collaborate in the production of real world projects that include advertisements, catalogues, and promotional pieces. This course, team-taught by Art and Design and Photography professors, will also examine the effect of advertising on consumer culture.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting
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23-3405 Fashion I: Styling
Course explores fashion photography in the studio and on location. Building upon the previous skills learned in Digital Imaging I and II, emphasis will be placed on digital capture and workflow. Lighting, styling, hair, make-up, and digital beauty retouching will be addressed to simulate professional experiences. Historical and contemporary fashion photographers will be discussed.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting
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23-3410 Fashion II: Collaboration
Course establishes creative collaborations by uniting fashion photography students with fashion design and fashion merchandising students. Teams work on projects during the semester that simulate ‘real-world’fashion assignments and educate one another about practices in their field. Course emphasizes analysis of visual problems and pertinent business practices in fashion photography. Creative processes, visualization of solutions, and client presentations are addressed.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3405 Fashion I: Styling
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23-3415 Layout to Finish
Advanced level course builds upon skills learned in previous courses, focusing on the completion of a professionally presented cohesive portfolio. Course covers business practices relevant to production of advertising jobs, running a studio, and alternative career choices within the professional industry.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting
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23-3418 Special Topics in Commercial Photography:
This advanced level course examines a specific issue related to contemporary topics and trends relevant to commercial photographic practice. Over the course of the semester, students will analyze the topic from a practical, theoretical, and visual perspective. Students will create and implement a self-directed, semester-long project aided by practical examples and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques. Topics will rotate allowing students to repeat the course to examine a different specific issue.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting AND 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-3480 Professional Topics: Styling
Advanced level, intensive, professional workshop provides students with an opportunity to collaborate with professional food and prop stylists and an instructor to execute from a layout, a finished high quality advertisement. Day 1: Students collaborate with a food stylist and take a field trip with a prop stylist to a professional prop house. Day 2: Students work on one shot with outside professionals. A finished high quality professionally presented print will be critiqued in a brief third meeting.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting
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23-3488 Internship: Photography
Course provides advanced level students with an internship opportunity to gain professional experience in an area of concentration or interest while receiving credit towards their degree. Students must be a junior or senior and have a GPA of 3.0. Permission of the Internship Coordinator and participation in a portfolio review is required before a student can apply for an internship. Students work with the Internship Coordinator to design and implement their internship.
1-6 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements 3.0 GPA required and 60 Enrolled Hours and Internship Coor/Chairper
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23-3490 Professional Topics: Food Photography
Advanced level, intensive, professional workshop offers students an opportunity to collaborate with professional food and prop stylists and an instructor to execute from a layout, a finished high quality advertisement featuring food. Day 1: Students collaborate with a food stylist and take a field trip with a prop stylist to a professional prop house. Day 2: Students work on one shot with outside professionals. A finished high quality professionally presented print will be critiqued in a brief third meeting.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting
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23-3495 Professional Studio
Advanced level, intensive studio-based course is designed for students seeking to further develop their technical and conceptual skills required for the professional fine art or commercial photographer. Students work on a semester long cohesive project under the guidance of an instructor, meeting every other week for eight hour shooting sessions. Outside of class, students are expected to develop concepts and gather materials for scheduled studio/shooting days.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting
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23-3500 Introduction to Photojournalism
This is a hands-on class focusing on the technical, aesthetic, journalistic and interpersonal skills needed to produce images that tell stories for newspapers, magazines, books and the Internet. Weekly assignments will introduce students to specific areas of photojournalism. Students may be assigned to cover protests and demonstrations, political campaigns, live performances, press conferences, sporting events as well as feature stories that explore contemporary social issues. Journalistic ethics will be the subject of ongoing discussions throughout the semester, as will applicable business practices for both free-lance and staff photojournalists.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting or 23-2202 Foundations of Digital Imaging and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting
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23-3505 Multimedia Photo Essay
In this project-based class students will be introduced to the basic techniques necessary for the production of narrative picture stories for multimedia online presentations. We will analyze classic photo essays and examine how the techniques used in creating them - opening pictures, transitions, point pictures, closers, expressive camera angles and lighting - apply to modern multi-media applications. Linear and thematic organization of photo essays will be discussed. Students will research, plan, photograph and edit stories incorporating audio, video and still pictures.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting or 23-2202 Foundations of Digital Imaging and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting
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23-3518 Special Topics in Photojournalism:
Each semester this class will focus on a special topic related to recent trends in photojournalistic practice and/or a focused exploration of a specific issue in the news. Over the course of the semester we will analyze the topic from a practical, ethical, and visual perspective, with emphasis on its ramifications for the field of photojournalism. Class time will involve some short lectures and discussions of readings about our topic but will primarily consist of critiques of student work. Students may repeat the course with different Special Topics.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3500 Introduction to Photojournalism and 23-3505 Multimedia Photo Essay
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23-3520 Documentary Methods
Course introduces students to a wide range of approaches and styles of documentary photography. Students will conceive, develop, and pursue documentary photographic projects and present the work in a manner consistent with the meaning and point of view of the work.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1120 Photography II AND 23-1121 Photography II Workshop OR 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II
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23-3700 Experimental Photography/ Graphic Techniques I
Course explores contemporary photographic practices using a variety of hand-applied emulsions that include blue, brown, and silver-gelatin printing processes. Students experiment with image manipulation on a variety of 2-D and 3-D image supports.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-1120 Photography II and 23-1121 Photography II Workshop or 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II
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23-3705 Experimental Photography/ Graphic Techniques II
Course is a systematic exploration of advanced alternative photographic processes including digital imaging techniques in making digital negatives and positives. Each student develops an extended self-directed project utilizing a combination of processes and materials taught.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3700 Experimental Photography/ Graphic Techniques I
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23-3718 Special Topics in Fine Art Photography:
This advanced level course examines a specific issue related to contemporary topics and trends relevant to fine art photographic practice. Over the course of the semester, students will analyze the topic from a practical, theoretical, and visual perspective. Students will create and implement a self-directed, semester-long project aided by theoretical and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques. Topics will rotate allowing students to repeat the course and examine a different specific issue.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting AND 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-3730 Visual Books
Advanced level course provides photography students with an opportunity for in-depth study of the photographic book. The history, production, and use of the book format as an artistic medium and repository for photographic images is examined. The structure of the book is addressed, with attention to issues of narrative, visual sequencing, pacing, and movement. Students will produce professional quality photographic books that may utilize a variety of forms and materials with emphasis on the unity of form and content.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I or 23-2202 Foundations of Digital Imaging
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23-3733 Theory & Criticism: Contemporary Photography
This seminar will examine and interrogate the multiple roles that contemporary photography plays within our unique cultural moment. Students will view original works, read contemporary criticism and engage in probing discussion and original writing. Upon completion of this course, students will have the capacity to more confidently engage the work they make within the broader discourse of art.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2655 History of Photography II
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23-3735 Nineteenth Century Photographic Processes
Course explores printing techniques of 19th century photography. Students utilize a variety of historic photographic materials to investigate contemporary aesthetic concerns. A variety of printing processes taught may include: salt, platinum/palladium, gum bichromate, and albumen.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3700 Experimental Photography/ Graphic Techniques I
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23-3740 The Constructed Image
In this advanced, fine art based course, students will explore deliberate picture-making strategies to create images based on personal vision while examining the reasons for employing these strategies. Students will create the subject matter of their photographs, working from the understanding that the process starts with previsualization and moves to planning and execution. Students will be introduced to a multitude of ways of manufacturing photographic subject matter and how these images contribute to and rely on contemporary photographic culture.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting AND 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-3780 Special Subjects
Two-day workshop course introduces students to a variety of compact strobe equipment and techniques for shooting on location. Students utilize their own equipment as well as equipment provided by the workshop. Technical strategies explored include shooting in the studio, on location, interior as well as exterior, along with lighting demonstrations and discussions about technique. A brief third meeting will be arranged to critique results from the workshop.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting or 23-2202 Foundations of Digital Imaging and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting
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23-3798 Independent Project: Photography
Course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines their self-defined project.
1-6 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Permission Instr & Chair
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23-3799 Directed Studies: Photography
1-3 Credits
Repeatable
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23-3900 Senior Thesis
BFA capstone course requires that students develop and shape a self-generated, long-term photography project, working in a more independent manner. Students increase their expertise in seeing, editing, and problem solving. Work is based on personal concerns and values, and students improve their ability to speak and write articulately about their work and the work of others. Career strategies, professional challenges, and relationship to contemporary art practices are a vital component of this course. A written research paper related to their project is required. Students engage with professional practitioners through the Department’s Lectures in Photography series.
3 Credits
WI
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3910 Photography Seminar
Requirements BFA Degree and Major 230 Only
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23-3910 Photography Seminar
This course teaches students how to develop and shape a self-directed, long-term photography project designed to encourage students to work in a more independent manner and increase their expertise in seeing, editing and problem solving. Students learn to create work based on personal concerns and values as well as increase their capacity to speak and write articulately about their work. Students will also engage with professional practitioners in the field through lectures, writings, and in-class visiting lecturers to develop career strategies, discuss professional challenges, and place themselves in relation to contemporary photography practices. This course is open to all students meeting the pre-reqs, but for BFA students it is part of a two semester capstone experience, along with 23-3900 Senior Thesis.
3 Credits
WI
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting
Requirements 90 Enrolled Hours
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23-4210 Body, Space and Image
Course presents an intensive survey of contemporary performance, site, and installation art from an anthropological point of view. Specifically, the course focuses on artist’s work that is constructed to be experienced live and/or through photographic and video documentation of the work. Students will be given workshops on sound, digital photography, and video editing. Students will be required to produce and present a performance, site, or installation work of their own for their final project as well as photographic and/or video artworks based on their piece.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern and 23-2201 Digital Imaging I or 23-2202 Foundations of Digital Imaging and 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern
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23-4525 The Documentary Book
Course, building upon skills learned in Documentary I, continues to broaden and deepen an understanding of the various approaches to documentary photography. Course offers an in depth understanding of the various traditional and contemporary approaches to the photographic documentary book. Using desktop publishing software, the class is designed to help the student produce a book of his or her long-term documentary project.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-3520 Documentary Methods COREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-4705 History of Photography Seminar:
Course focuses each semester on a special topic related to recent trends in photographic and/or critical histories and theories of photography. Over the course of the semester students will analyze this topic’s ideological, representational, technological, historical, and aesthetic ramifications for photography. Class time will involve some short lectures and exhibition viewings but will mostly consist of discussions of reading and looking assignments. Course expectations and requirements will be adjusted accordingly for undergraduates and graduates.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2655 History of Photography II
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23-4720 Image and Text
Advanced level course provides an in-depth exploration of the conceptual and practical issues surrounding photographic works that use image and text as a significant strategy in their communication. A wide range of image and text examples in contemporary practice will be examined. Students complete assignments combining images and text.
3 Credits
WI
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23-4765 Special Subjects: Digital Capture
Two-day workshop course introduces students to high-end, state-of-the-art digital cameras in a studio setting. Under the guidance of a professional commercial photographer, students shoot, examine, and compare analog/film to digital capture. Emphasis is placed on output and achieving professional quality prints. Work produced will be critiqued at the end of the second day of the workshop.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting and 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-4777LDM Photographing History
This four-week photography course is offered through the Florence Summer Program. Undergraduate and graduate students will explore contemporary life within a centuries-old urban environment and examine the influences of Italian Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture on western visual culture. Students will be encouraged to incorporate or address the legacy of Florentine traditions and styles of architecture, science and art in their own photographic image making. Students’ work may incorporate techniques as varied as documentary methods or constructed imagery.
3 Credits
GA Repeatable
Requirements Permission of Instructor
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23-4780 Special Topics I:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
3 Credits
Repeatable
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23-4785 Special Topics II:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits
Repeatable
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23-4790 Special Topics III:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits
Repeatable
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23-5210 Body, Space and Image
This course presents an intensive survey of contemporary performance, site, and installation art from an anthropological point of view. Specifically, the course focuses on artist’s works that were constructed to be experienced through photograpic and video documentation. Students will be given workshops on sound, digital photography, and video editing. Course expectations and requirements will be adjusted accordingly for undergraduates and gradutes.
3 Credits
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23-5450 Architectural Photography
No description available.
3 Credits
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23-5525 The Documentary Book
Building upon skills learned in Documentary I, this course continues to broaden and deepen an understanding of the various approaches to documentary photography. This course offers an in depth understanding of the various traditional and contemporary approaches to the photographic documentary book. Using desktop publishing software, the class is designed to help the student produce a book of his or her long-term documentary project.
3 Credits
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23-5705 History of Photography Seminar:
Each semester the History of Photography Seminar will focus on a special topic related to recent trends in photographic and/or critical histories and theories of photography. Over the course of the semester we will analyze this topic’s ideological, representational, technological, historical, and aesthetic ramifications for photography. Class time will involve some short lectures and exhibition viewings but will mostly consist of discussions of reading and looking assignments. Course expectations and requirements will be adjusted accordingly for undergraduates and graduates.
3 Credits
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23-5720 Image and Text
This advanced level course provides an in-depth exploration of the conceptual and practical issues surrounding photographic works that use image and text as a significant strategy in their communication. A wide range of image and text examples in contemporary practice will be examined. Students complete assignments combining images and text.
3 Credits
WI
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23-5730 Directed Visions Studio
This advanced, studio based course explores directed, manipulated, and constructed photographs. Students perform the roles of the director, fabricator, and photographer to execute their own photographic visions. Utilizing artificial lighting along with fabricated set-ups, cinematic staging, and/or multiple imaging, students will create conceptually based, content oriented photographs for the camera.
3 Credits
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23-5750 The Portrait
This advanced course provides an in-depth exploration of the conceptual and practical issues surrounding the photographic portrait. A wide range of social and political issues of portraiture within a historical and contemporary context will be examined and applied.
3 Credits
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23-5765 Special Subjects: Digital Capture
This two-day workshop introduces students to high-end, state-of-the-art digital cameras in a studio setting. Under the guidance of a professional commercial photographer, students shoot, examine, and compare analog/film to digital capture. Emphasis is placed on output and achieving professional quality prints. Work produced will be critiqued at the end of the second day of the workshop.
1 Credits
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23-5777LDM Photographing History
This four-week photography course is offered through the Florence Summer Program. Undergraduate and graduate students will explore contemporary life within a centuries-old urban environment and examine the influences of Italian Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture on western visual culture. Students will be encouraged to incorporate or address the legacy of Florentine traditions and styles of architecture, science and art in their own photographic image making. Students’ work may incorporate techniques as varied as documentary methods or constructed imagery.
3 Credits
Requirements Permission of Instructor
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23-5780 Special Topics I:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
3 Credits
Repeatable
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23-5785 Special Topics II:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits
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23-5790 Special Topics III:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits
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23-6140 Large Format
No description available.
3 Credits
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23-6200 Digital Imaging
This course expands student’s knowledge of digital media. Using a variety of software students learn to digitally manage, manipulate and enhance photographic images. Emphasis is placed on production methods including but not limited to printing, web galleries and video. The student will create a cohesive final project of professional quality prints utilizing these new tools supported by critical discussions, readings, and research.
3 Credits
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23-6203 Digital Imaging:Intermd
No description available.
3 Credits
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23-6210 Digital Imaging Studio+
No description available.
3 Credits
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23-6280 Photo Computer Imaging Semn
No description available.
3 Credits
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23-6645 Photographic History, Theory & Criticism: 1900-1989
This course surveys the major issues within the history, theory and criticism of photography from 1900-1989 during which the photographic medium was central to debates about modernism and postmodernism. Close attention will be paid to photography’s relationship to other media such as film, painting, and installation. Students will be exposed to a variety of photographic theories and art historical approaches so that they may situate their work within these art historical, theoretical and critical movements and traditions
3 Credits
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23-6650 Contemp Painting & Sculpture
A seminar/practicum style course that will survey the major concepts and methods of 20th Century art theory and criticism from the early formalism of Roger Fry and Clive Bell to the mid-century late Modernist theories of Clement Greenberg as well as other art-historical points of view such as stylistic analysis, iconography, structuralism and semiotics, and the social history of art. The more contemporary critical positions of postmodernism will also be discussed. These will include poststructuralist attitudes and responses to late 20th Century art: deconstructionalist, feminist, neo-marxist, and psychoanalytic critical methodologies. The course will cover a broad area of visual production that includes traditional fine art (painting/sculpture), as well as photography, performance/installation, video, and even areas of pop culture, i.e. advertisements, rock videos, commercial television and film, etc.
3 Credits
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23-6660 Written Thesis
The purpose of this course is to prepare first semester graduate students for the analytical and creative thinking and writing that are a part of the contemporary photographic art world. Students are introduced to graduate level research methods and become acquainted with cultural theories that currently influence the study of photography. Readings rooted in semiotics, Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-colonialism address how we understand our particular field of study and our culture. This course stresses the critical skills needed to think and write effectively, with the immediate purpose of preparing students for the papers that will be produced in other graduate level courses and for the Master’s thesis.
3 Credits
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23-6670 Hist of Photo Sem
No description available.
3 Credits
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23-6700 Graduate Seminar
This required course for all 1st and 2nd year photography graduate students is an intensive seminar. Students develop a long-term project, increasingly refining their expertise in conceptual ideas and the formal execution of their work. Students will improve their ability to speak and write articulately about their work and the work of others. Discussion of student’s art practice will revolve around issues and concerns in contemporary art. Prominent practitioners from outside the program are regularly invited to engage with and critique student work.
6 Credits
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23-6705 First Semester Grad Seminar
No description available.
7 Credits
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23-6730 Photographic History, Theory & Criticism: 1989-present
This course surveys the major issues in the history, theory and criticism of photography since 1989, a period defined by the internet, globalization, photography’s rise to art market prominence, and the decline of medium-specific art theories. Close attention will be paid to photography’s intersection with other media - film, painting, and installation. Students will be exposed to a variety of photographic theories and art historical approaches so that they may situate their work within contemporary photographic movements and practices.
3 Credits
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23-6780 Graduate Thesis in Photo
After completion of 2nd year of graduate courses, students continue to develop visual work for their thesis exhibition. Students will meet bi-monthly with their advisors to discuss new work and the refinement of their ideas
1-6 Credits
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23-6785 Thesis Continuance
1 Credits
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23-6791 Photography Studies Abroad: Southeast Asia
This three-to-four week course introduces students to the international practice of photography. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance or paper during the period of travel is required. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application.
Min 1cr / Max 6cr Credits
Requirements Department Permission
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23-6792 Photography Studies Abroad: The Netherlands
This three-to-four week course introduces students to the international practice of photography. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance or paper during the period of travel is required. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application.
Min 1cr / Max 6cr Credits
Requirements Department Permission
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23-6796 Independent Study:Photo
This course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines their self-defined project.
1-6 Credits
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23-6797 Independent Study:Photo
This course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an aarea that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines their self-defined project.
1-6 Credits
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23-6798 Independent Study:Photo
This course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines their self-defined project.
1-6 Credits
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23-6799 Independent Study: Photo
This course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written propoosal that outlines their self-defined project.
1-6 Credits
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24-1015 Production Design I
Course provides an overview of production design for the visual media by exploring the history and theory of production design, as well as the application of art, design, and architecture to moving image storytelling. Students examine and critique case studies. Instruction covers the process of script analysis and breakdowns to budgeting for the art department. The roles and procedures of the art department will be introduced. Basics of architectural drafting and simple drawing will be covered. Students will be required to serve in the art department of an advanced film production.
3 Credits
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24-1016 History and Techniques of Production Design
The men and women who have become Production Designers have arrived from many different backgrounds. Production Designers strive to create a visual language that encompasses and defines the world we see in film. What techniques have designers developed and how have they evolved since cinemas early beginnings in the silent era, through the studio system, and into the digital age? By exploring the evolution of the profession, as well as the evolution of film both in Hollywood and the wider world, this course will provide historical context for the Production Designer.
3 Credits
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24-1030 Moving Image Art
Course provides a foundation in the history and aesthetics of moving image arts. Through individual films, clips, lectures, and discussion, students analyze major film movements that contributed to the development of narrative cinema. Organized thematically, course explores aesthetic, historical, technological and ideological moving image elements and their impact on the evolution of narrative construction in film & video. Students apply principles and concepts of film language as well as notions of story premise and theme to their creative production projects.
4 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151HN Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
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24-1080 Directed Study: Production
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in the development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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