PLACE AND TIME

Tues/Thurs 9-12, Room 162 Photo Lab

WELCOME TO INTRO TO PHOTOGRAPHY

This page will be your main resource for materials for this class as I will not be handing anything out after the first day. There are downloadable handouts regarding assignments and instruction as well as the syllabus below.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This class is an ambitious introduction to the practice, theories and history of photography. Students will learn the technical aspects of camera operation, film exposure, black and white film developing and printing. Creative emphasis will be on photographic vision and composition, visual communication and artistic expression. Artwork created during this course will be contextualized with lectures on the history of photography and readings dealing with contemporary and historical photographic theory.

 

DOWNLOADS

SYLLABUS

• Syllabus for Visual Concepts and Processes: Intro to Photography, Fall 2007.

ASSIGNMENTS (Descriptions of weekly assignments can be found in the syllabus)

• Final Project Proposals

MATERIAL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKING IN PUBLIC SPACE

Photographer's Rights PDF

A very helpful single sheet printout written by Bert P. Krages II, a lawyer who specializes in this type of law. Print this out and keep it in your camera bag if you photograph in public spaces. If someone gives you a hard time for photographing in a place you know you have a right to be, this may help you out (but these days it may not).

Photographer's Rights Letter to NPPA

A more in-depth, and perhaps more official, document written by Kurt Wimmer and John Blevins of Covington & Burling to the National Press Photographers Association in August of 2005. The letter outlines very specifically the rights of journalists on public streets. A good document to have both a digital and a hard copy of somewhere handy.