Contemporary Imaging Practice

(4 Credits)

Contemporary Imaging Practice (formally known as Visual Thinking) is a foundation course in the Tisch Department of Photography and Imaging designed to broaden the student’s aesthetic explorations and to inform their photography in this post-photographic world. The course will expose and explore basic visual ideas in a variety of imaging media to help the student develop a visual language based on contemporary, cross-disciplinary, and cultural-artistic strategies. Through a series of projects and exercises, students will be encouraged to experiment with line, composition, pattern, scale, text/type, collaboration, design, and materials moving from 2d to 3d worlds in order to develop strong tools for further awareness and visual expression. This is a studio-oriented class but we will also be learning via readings, artist lectures, slides, videos, field trips (virtual), and other materials.