Expanded Photography: Books and Boxes

4.0 credits

The class will examine and interrogate the multiple roles that contemporary photography and related media plays within our unique cultural moment with an emphasis on hybrid/multidisciplinary approaches to the medium. The class projects will explore site-specific photographic installation, time based imagery, large format printing, book and object making. Digital processes and studio lighting techniques will also be covered. In conjunction to their studio project, students will view and analyze a range of photographic practices, 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 and will acquire an understanding of the concepts and vocabulary necessary for critical discussion of photographic work, their own and that of others. Minimal experience with digital photography is required. Permission of Instructor.