MON/WED 6:10pm - 9:00pm [syllabus]
Week 1
01/27 (MON)
C
A
    What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Project 1: Documentary (sequencing image/text to tell a story) assignment
  • Prepare for pinhole camera, if you have not used our darkroom, watch [excerpt of darkroom printing video from Photo 1]
01/29 (WED)
C
A
    What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Project 1: Documentary assignment
Week 2
02/03 (MON)
C
  • Pin your pinhole photographs on wall (this is not an assignment, just for experience)
  • Discuss readings [slides]
  • Camera design [slides], medium format cameras, loading/unloading film on Hasselblad [video, 7mins] loading medium format film to tank [video, 2.5mins]
  • From Photo1: Film processing [instructions][video: developing film, 16.5mins]
R
Finish reading before class.
  • Theories of Photography by Sabine T. Kriebel (2013) Part 1 (p3-15) [PDF]
  • Optional: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin [PDF]
A
    What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Project 1: Documentary (text/image) assignment
  • Prepare (props/ideas) for strobe workshop next class. See [instagram post 1][instagram post 2].
  • Shoot and process medium format film (for use in mural printing)
02/05 (WED)
C
  • Strobe/Light meter [slides] workshop
A
    What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Project 1: Documentary (sequencing image/text) assignment.
  • Plan for Project 1 due by next class
  • Shoot and process medium format film (for use in mural printing)
Week 3
02/10 (MON)
C
  • Split class into Group A & B
  • Discuss reading [slides]
  • Issues regarding documentary photography [Errol Morris on Fenton, 8:27 min]
D
  • Project1 Documentary plan due. Email instructor your plans for Project 1.
R
Finish reading before class.
  • Ch3 "Regarding the Pain of Others" by Susan Sontag [PDF]
  • Optional: Errol Morris articles [part1] [part2] [part3]
A
    What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Project 1: Documentary (sequencing image/text) assignment.
  • Shoot and process medium format film (for use in mural printing)
02/12 (WED)
C
A
    What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Project 1: Documentary (text/image) assignment.
  • Shoot and process medium format film (for use in mural printing)
Week 4
02/17 (MON)
C
  • Large format camera workshop (part 2) [slides]
A
    What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Project 1: Documentary (sequencing image/text) assignment.
  • Shoot and process large & medium format film (for use in mural printing)
02/19 (WED)
C
  • Assign Project 2 - image size, scanning [slides][sample small images for photomerge]
  • "autonomous" from photo theory [slides]
A
What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Project 1: Documentary (sequencing image/text) assignment.
  • Shoot and process large & medium format film (for use in mural printing)
  • Refresh photoshop workshop (for those who did not in Photo 1) make appoinment with Paul
    • individual scanning workshop
    • preparing photgraphs for printing in Photoshop (cropping, rotating, resizing) before submitting your files to the printer
Week 5
02/24 (MON)
C
  • More Project 2 (two autonomous large photographs)
  • Discuss readings. If you have the book, PACA ch6 [slides]
  • Preparing digital negative for Cyanotype [slides][fyi chart]
R
Finish reading before class.
  • Sontag Ch9 "Regarding the Pain of Others" by Susan Sontag [PDF]
  • Introduction of "Documentary Impulse" by Stuart Franklin [PDF]
  • Optional: Theories of Photography by Sabine T. Kriebel (2013) Part 2 (p15-22) [PDF]
A
What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Project 1: Documentary (sequencing image/text) assignment.
  • Shoot and process large & medium format film (for use in mural printing)
  • Project 2: Autonomous large photographs
  • Prepare digital negatives for cyanotype if desired (Under 8x10")
  • Refresh photoshop workshop (for those who did not in Photo 1) make appoinment with Paul
    • individual scanning workshop
    • preparing photgraphs for printing in Photoshop (cropping, rotating, resizing) before submitting your files to the printer
02/26 (WED)
C
  • Mural printing workshop [schedule]
D
  • Submit candidate photos (less than 50) [here] for Project 1. Instructor will try to edit them as well, and we can compare your edits to instructors
Week 6
03/03 (MON)
C
  • Critique part 1 (documentary) submit [here] Group A (TBD) (Everybody participates)
03/05 (WED)
C
  • Critique part 2 (documentary) submit [here] Group B (TBD): (Everybody participates)
A
What you should be doing outside of class:
  • Shoot and process large & medium format film (for use in mural printing)
  • Project 2: Autonomous large photographs
  • Prepare digital negatives for cyanotype if desired (Under 8x10")
  • Refresh photoshop workshop (for those who did not in Photo 1) make appoinment with Paul
    • individual scanning workshop
    • preparing photgraphs for printing in Photoshop (cropping, rotating, resizing) before submitting your files to the printer
Week 7
03/10 (MON)
C
  • Mural Printing workshop [schedule]
03/12 (WED)
C
  • Mural Printing workshop [schedule]
Week 8
03/17 (MON)
C
03/19 (WED)
C
SPRING BREAK 3/22(SAT) - 3/30 (SUN)
Week 10
03/31 (MON)
C
  • Cyanotype workshop
  • Prepare (digital) negative or bring negatives to make 8x10" contact print
04/02 (WED)
C
  • Cyanotype workshop
  • Prepare (digital) negative or bring negatives to make 8x10" contact print
Week 11
04/07 (MON)
C
  • Discuss reading [slides]
  • Jessica Eaton [video, 06:17min]
  • Mariah Robertson [video, 09:21min]
  • Sara Cwynar [artist page, Rose Gold, video 3mins]
  • Walead Beshty [artist talk, from 17:00min - 35:50]
  • Vera Lutter [video 7:53min]
  • Faom X Polaroid Artist Talk Series: Ellen Carey & John Reuter [video 53:18min]
R
Finish reading before class.
  • PACA Ch8 Physical & Material [PDF]
04/09 (WED)
C
  • Studio work time
Week 12
04/14 (MON)
C
D
  • Critique part 1 Group A (TBD) (Everybody participates)
Project 2: Two independent/autonomous large prints

  • Print a large photograph that you think can exist on its own (autonomous) without having to be part of a series.
  • Present two different photographs, one made in the darkroom, one printed digitally.
  • The two photographs need not relate to each other. It can be entirely independent. I am asking for two prints so that you experience two different processes (digital and analog)
  • Digital image: 40" in one dimension. (Roll of paper is 44")
  • Darkroom print: Use 30" roll
  • Submit digital file 3 days prior to critique to be printed [here][instructions/information] (if presenting Tuesday submit Friday, if presenting Thursday submit Monday).
    • submitting test strip (40"x5") recommended
04/16 (WED)
C
D
  • Critique part 2 Group B (TBD): (Everybody participates)
  • Project 2: Large Print
Week 13
04/21 (MON)
C
R
Finish reading before class.
04/23 (WED)
C
  • Studio work time
Week 14
04/28 (MON)
C
  • Studio work time
04/30 (WED)
C
  • LAST DAY OF CLASS
  • Studio work time

CRITIQUE DURING FINALS WEEK -- NOTE DIFFERENT SCHEDULE!

TBD (MON)
D
TBD
D
  • Final Project: Photographicness
    Group A (TBD) (Everybody participates)
D
Project 3: Photographicness: We looked at different processes that exposes some of the unique properties of photography (eg. cyanotypes, 3D scanning, scannergrams, photograms, pinhole camera/camera obscura, photo chemistry, photo sensitive materials, large format cameras, computational photography). With Ch8 (Physical and Material) and Ch9 (Photographicness) in mind, explore and make work that comment on or think about an issue/subject/aesthetics, using not only the photographic image but through the process and the photographic materials used.
TBD
D
  • Final Project: Photographicness
  • Group B (TBD): (Everybody participates)




C Class............plans for class..subject to change
L Lab............darkroom/lab session
A Assignments......what you should be doing outside of class among other things.
R Readings.........finish reading by.
D Due.............yes, due date.
S Supplementary.....further reading/references/artists discussed in class