5/18/04 |
PHOTOGRAPHY spring 2004 |
Instructor Name: |
Steve Davis
daviss@evergreen.edu
867-6263
office L1305 (inside the DIS)
office hours Thursday 4-5 or by appointment |
Covenant: |
Students are expected to complete all the assignments on time, attend all classes, and be an active and informed participant in seminars and discussions. As the experience levels vary, students who are capable of helping and assisting others are expected to do so. Everyone is expected to publicly display work as per class guidelines at the final week of the course, and to keep the work up through commencement. |
Course Description: |
This program aims to educate students to a broad range of contemporary photographic practices. Targeted towards beginning to intermediate levels, we will explore photography history, approaches, theory and a wide range of techniques in order to provide students with the tools for personal expression through this medium. Photography today exists in many forms and for many purposes. The tools and technologies used introduce problematic values and offer new possibilities for shifts in aesthetics and visual interpretation. Expect to become proficient with cameras of different formats (35mm, 120, digital, and possibly 4x5). Studio photography will be addressed, including how to effectively use professional lighting equipment. On the wet side of photography, we'll work in both black and white and color darkrooms. The digital, or dry end of the medium will be explored fully, including making high quality inkjet prints and crafting your own Web page as an effective means of presentation. Work by historic and contemporary artists will be reviewed, and students will be asked to make presentations on photographers of their choice. Seminars groups will explore reading material in relation to the class's ongoing photography projects. Guest speakers and field trips are anticipated. Final projects, accompanied by artists' statements, will be presented for public display. |
Text book Website: |
Photography
http://wpslive.pearsoncmg.com/hss_horenstein_photograph_1/ |
Class Schedule and locations:
Online file storage:
Program web page: |
Days |
Time |
Building |
Room |
Wednesday |
9:00 to 12:00 |
Sem2 |
A2105 |
Thursday |
9:00 to 16:00 |
Sem2 & Library |
A2105/L1341 |
Friday |
9:00 to 15:00 |
Library & Sem2 |
L1341/ A2105 |
https://studentfiles.evergreen.edu/Programs/photo04/
http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/photo04/ |
Required Text: |
Photography, The Photography Reader, A World History of Photography |
Required Supplies: |
$150.00 user fee will help cover printing papers, a Holga camera, and some film. Matting and mounting materials will be your responsibility. |
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Wednesday March 31
Introduction
Thursday April 1
The Photogram
Friday April 2
Introduction to the Camera |
- Assignment #2: the Holga Print
- Lab--Photo center A.M. The Holga camera P.M.
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Wednesday April 7
Assignment #1 Critique & Seminar |
- For seminar--develop six questions based on the assigned reading. Questions must refer to specific passages, and be type-written.
- read Wells, chapters 5, 6, 7, Part 3 Introduction, 13 & 14, and Rosenblum chapters 1, 2 & 3
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Thursday April 8
Film development and Contact Print |
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Friday April 9
The Print/35mm camera review and proficiency
Wednesday April 14
seminar |
read Wells, chapters 1,2,8,9,10,11,12 and Rosenblum chapter 11 (or read week 1’s reading if you already read this)
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Thursday April 15
Introduction to Digital Photography
Friday April 16
Lab/Assignment #2 Critique
Wednesday April 21
Seminar
read Wells, chapters 3,4, and Part Four Rosenblum chapters 4,5,6, and 7
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Thursday April 22
Digital Imaging continued
Friday April 23
Lab/assignment #3 Critique
Wednesday April 28
Mid-Quarter Conferences
Thursday April 29
Field Trip: Seattle Art Museum and galleries
Read Wells Parts 8 and 9 and look at the following web sites:
Friday April 30
Lab/assignment #4 Critique
Wednesday May 5
Read Wells Part 5, and review Wells Parts 8 and 9
Seminar
Seminar
Thursday May 6
Friday May 7
Large camera formats/Tools for Presentations
Wednesday May 12
Hang work for Seminar II Grand Opening
Thursday May 13
Friday May 14
Introduction to the Web/Critique assignment 5
Wednesday May 19
Seminar
Read Wells Part 6, and review Rosenblum chapters 8, 10, and 11
Links:
Documenting America http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/fsa/letus.html
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
http://www.galeriealminerech.com/artists/artists/philip-lorca/philip-lorca.html
http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/exhibition/exhibition_details.php/id/933
Jacob Riis—How the Other Half Lives
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
Larry Clark
http://www.pavementmagazine.com/larryclark.html
Grrl Stories
http://www.grrlstories.org
Visions of the Sacred
http://www.visionsacred.org/index.php
Photovoice
http://www.photovoice.com/index.html
Indivisible
http://www.indivisible.org/
Santa Fe Center for Photography
http://www.photoprojects.org/
Weegee
http://www.icp.org/weegee/weegee.html
Foto8 Magazine
http://foto8.com/
Untitled Magazine
http://www.untitledmagazine.com/
Washington State Photography Resources
http://art-support.com/WA.htm
Thursday May 20
Presentations of group 1 and 3
Friday May 21
Lab/video presentation
Wednesday May 26 –extended class---
Assignment 6 Critique/ Guest photographer Amanda Koster
Thursday May 27
The Web Page/Presentations part 3
Friday May 28
Wednesday June 2
Web page critique
Thursday
Hang Class Exhibition
Friday
Final Critique