Photography: Photographing Fiction

3 units

Photography has always contained fiction. The visual and ideological frame of the artist is subjective. A person is operating the machine. Fiction can sometimes disclose something about truth that reality cannot, reframing existing narratives and creating new ones. In this studio course, students develop their own lens-based work using fiction as a tool of communication while studying contemporary artists who have stretched assumptions of reality within the photographic medium. This is a studio-based course with a discussion component. Students are evaluated on coursework and participation in discussion and critiques.