PC 351 - Contemporary Strategies in Photography:Conceptual Processes

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Northwest College of Art & Design

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Prerequisite: Photographic Style, Theory, and Analysis (3 credits) The student photographer will look at ideas expressed in contemporary art/photography such as personal vs. cultural identity; privacy and individuality; the self re-imagined through advertisement, media, and technology. This course considers conceptual strategies such as appropriation, decontextualization, multiplication, systems, collecting, mapping, and surveillance. Students will investigate these and other conceptual practices as means for producing bodies of work. In looking at each other's work the student photographer will be concerned with developing and refining both critical skills and vocabulary. This course will explore these ideas as a laboratory for testing each student's own conceptual stance.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.NCAD.edu

Phone Number:

(360) 779-9993

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Trimester

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