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3.00 Credits
This course explores the unique aesthetic and technical challenges of photographing the human-altered landscape for personal expression and historical documentation. Slide lecture topics include the history of landscape and architectural photography. Assignments focus on urban and rural landscapes and individual and group critiques guide student production. Students may work in color and/or black and white and may use large-, medium- or small-format cameras. Prerequisite: PHOT 113.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the use of artificial lighting to create photographic illustrations in a controlled environment. Lighting techniques are demonstrated and applied in a series of photographic exercises with tabletop still life and portraiture. Both hot lights and electronic flash are used to achieve total control of composition, color, contrast and reflection. Emphasis is placed on the technical mastery of complex equipment, coupled with an aesthetic understanding of the physical principles of light. Prerequisites: PHOT 206, PHOT 220.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers the unique photographic opportunity and challenge of finding intimacy and familiarity in the foreign portrait and the foreign landscape. Slide lectures explore important aspects of traveling with a camera in a foreign country and investigate how other photographers have faced this challenge. Assignments focus on urban and rural landscapes and populations. Students may work in black-and-white and/or color and may use large- or small-format cameras. Prerequisite: PHOT 113.
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3.00 Credits
Dedicated to the awareness and application of natural light, this course introduces students to the concept of using light to beautify and senhance their photographs. Through a series of practical exercises and individualized projects students explore the quality and attributes of the natural light found exclusively in the Provence region. Furthermore, students are made aware of the cultural and historical significance of Provence by drawing comparisons between contemporary and historical artists whose work has gained inspiration from the region's unique ambience. Prerequisite: PHOT 113.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced course extends students' exploration of the use of the photographic medium for personal expression. Students devise and produce a photographic project that expands on the techniques and processes mastered in previous courses. Prerequisites: PHOT 219, PHOT 240, PHOT 313.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores a variety of nonsilver photographic printmaking and print-manipulation processes that depart from the more prevalent black-and-white, color and digital approaches. Processes covered may include hand-applied color, iron salt printing, gum printing, albumen printing, platinum and palladium printing, and others. Prerequisites: PHOT 114, PHOT 220.
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3.00 Credits
This upper-level elective is designed to allow students to pursue and resolve ideas and techniques introduced in Color Photography. Although emphasis is placed on advanced color printing techniques and aesthetics, students are encouraged to pursue their own personal directions using appropriate tools and techniques. Prerequisite: PHOT 206.
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3.00 Credits
This elective emphasizes the creative application of studio lighting and fabrication techniques and aesthetics. Students explore the complex relationship between content and form, discovery and invention through a series of exercises using multiple exposure, fabricated light and form, theater, computer collage, and other techniques and processes. Prerequisite: PHOT 313.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the various philosophical, aesthetic and technical approaches to photographing the contemporary, human-altered landscape. Through slide lectures, field trips, supervised lab work and in-depth critiques, students are expected to increase their awareness of how their own personal responses to the landscape relate to those of other photographers dealing with the same contemporary issues. Materials and format are open, but students taking this course should have a working knowledge of black-and-white, color and large-format photography. Prerequisites: PHOT 206, PHOT 220.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces experienced black-and-white photographers to the documentary/journalistic branch of photography. Areas covered include history, major forms, styles, practitioners, and techniques and practices of this important use of the medium. Prerequisite: PHOT 115.
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