TUE/THR 13:40-16:30 [syllabus]
Week 1
9/3 (TUE)
C
  • Portfolio and the application process [slides]
    • At least 5 photographs/day, 30 photographs/week (you will be asked to submit all the photos as jpg files)
    • For each work in progress showing, you will be asked to print 10 work prints (no larger than 8x10) that you select
    • Printing in the DML. Submit digital files to be printed 24 hours in advance [here][instructions/information]
  • Work in progress schedule [spreadsheet]
    • enter choice by end of week 2. after that, I will assign you a date :-)
  • ASPS [Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling]: [19 Advice, 20:43 mins]
  • Video Pictures & Words #1 by Alec Soth [25:25min]
R
  • Photobooks for THIS CLASS
    • Margaret Bourke White Say is this the USA
    • Dorothea Lang An American Exodus
    • Walker Evans American Photographs
    • FOTONOVEL
    • The Sweet Flypaper of Life, Roy DeCarava & Langston Hughes
    • Roy DeCarava A retrospective
9/5 (THR)
C
  • Making an argument with pictures (with or without words)
  • Photobooks for class
    • The Sweet Flypaper of Life, Roy DeCarava & Langston Hughes
    • Roy DeCarava A retrospective
    • Shashin yo sayonara (Bye Bye Photography) by Daido Moriyama
    • Kamaitachi by Hosoe Eiko
    • Illuminations, Utatane by Rinko Kawauchi
    • Dein Kampf by Brad Feuerhelm
R
Week 2
9/10 (TUE)
C
  • Time and Narrative: Editing/Selecting Photos
R
  • Watch before class
  • Photobooks before class
    • From now on: view photobook before class: Go through the all the photo books once. Then spend more time with the one that most interests you. I will ask you in class to analyze the book

    • in DML flat file labeld Art376 - please do not take book outside DML
    • Robert Adams "Praries"
    • Robert Adams "Commercial Residential"
    • Cheryl Dunn "Some Kinda Vocation"
    • The Essential Duane Michals
    • Jan Groover "Photographer, Laboratory of Forms"
    • Teju Cole "Pharmakon"
    • Mark Steinmetz "Greater Atlanta"
9/12 (THR)
C
  • ASPS [Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling]: [04 Creative Development, 12:19 mins][05: Key Projects: Sleeping by the Mississippi, 6:48 mins]
Week 3
9/17 (TUE)
C
  • Democratic vs Random
R
  • Watch before class
  • Photobooks before class
    • William Eggleston's Guide
    • Robert Frank "The Americans"
    • Stephen Shore "Uncommon Places"
    • Godlis "Streets"
    • Nathan Lyons "Riding 1st Class on the Titanic"
    • Nathan Lyons "Notations in Passing"
    • Agnieszka Sejud "Hoax"
    • Shirana Shabazi "Meanwhile"
9/19 (THR)
C
  • Work in Progress Round 1 [1,2,3]
    • Put all photos in jpg form [here] (You should have at least 60 photos by this time)
    • Pin 10 selected work prints on wall before class starts
  • ASPS [Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling]: [10 Building a Narrative Project, 27:32 mins]
Week 4
9/24 (TUE)
C
  • Work in Progress Round 1 [1,2,3]
    • Put all photos in jpg form [here] (You should have at least 60 photos by this time)
    • Pin 10 selected work prints on wall before class starts
  • Albums
9/26 (THR)
C
  • Work in Progress Round 1 [1,2,3]
  • ASPS [Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling]: [11 Case Study - The Griz, 08:28 min] [12 Case Study: The Canvas, 13:56 min][13 Case Study: The County Fair, 19:20 min]
Week 5
10/1 (TUE)
C
  • Work in Progress Round 1 [Oscar,Henry M., Katie Rose]
    • Put all photos in jpg form [here] (You should have at least 60 photos by this time)
    • Pin 10 selected work prints on wall before class starts
10/3 (THR)
C
  • Work in Progress Round 1 [Sisy,Amber,Omar]
    • Put all photos in jpg form [here] (You should have at least 60 photos by this time)
    • Pin 10 selected work prints on wall before class starts
Week 6
10/8 (TUE)
C
  • Discuss the Photo Album video + photo books (from 9/24)
  • ASPS [Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling]: [10 Building a Narrative Project, 27:32 mins] [13 Case Study: The County Fair, 19:20 min]
R
  • Watch before class
  • Photobooks before class
    • Women With Cameras (Anonymous) by Anne Collier
    • Silent Histories by Kazuma Obara
    • Latoya Ruby Frazier "The Notion of Family"
    • Deanna Templeton "What She Said" (content warning - discussion of suicide, depiction of self-harm, body-dismorphia)
    • Santa Barbara, Diana Markosian
    • Larry Sultan, Pictures from Home
    • Mitch Epstein, Family Business
10/10 (THR)
C
  • ASPS [Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling]: [14 People, 10:53 min] [15 Editing & Reflection, 33:51 min]
  • Playing Solitaire [video 1 min]
Week 7
10/15 (TUE)
C
R
  • Watch for this week
  • Photobooks for this week
    • I'm looking through You, Tim Davis
    • Cloud Physics, Terri Weifenbach
    • The Maze, Donovan Wylie
    • Rahim Fortune, I can't stand to see you cry
    • Troubled Land, Paul Graham
    • Is this Place Great or What, Brian Ulrich
10/17 (THR)
C
Fall Break Oct 19–27
Week 8
10/29 (TUE)
C
  • Part 1 (in class): C Meier Exhibition Director from Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts 1:40pm -
  • Part 2 (field trip): Blue Sky Gallery Downtown Portland. Meet 5:30pm front of studio art building@Reed. Estimated end 8pm - 8:30pm.
10/31 (THR)
C
Week 9
11/5 (TUE)
C
  • Work in Progress Round 2 [Achali, Raine, Nick]

    • Put all photos in jpg form [here] (You should have at least 270 photos by this time).
    • Provide structured sequence, pairings, or several ordering of photograph that form part of your final book (Google Slides if this is easiest or use small work prints)
      • Potential options for opening sequence (you can have multiple version)
      • Options for closing sequence
      • Pairs or sequences that are special
      • Surprise, anchor, key photos you want/need
    • Provide a short (2 sentence) blurb for what your book is about



  • ASPS [Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling]: [18 Output, 10:49 min]
R
  • Watch for this week
  • Photobooks for this week
    • "The San Quentin Project", Nigel Poor (content warning: physical violence)
    • Glass Life Sara Cwynar
    • Richared Billingham Ray's a Laugh
    • The Forgotten Rosalind Fox Solomon
    • I can't Stand to See you Cry, Rahim Fortune
11/7 (THR)
C
  • Work in Progress Round 2 [Chris, Oscar]
Week 10
11/12 (TUE)
C
  • Work in Progress Round 2 [Sisy, Henry M, Omar]
11/14 (THR)
C
  • Work in Progress Round 2 [Henry K, Amber, Katie Rose]
S
  • Ask Alec Soth anything: a Tik Tok Compilation [video, 20:44mins]
Week 11
11/19 (TUE)
C
11/21 (THR)
C
  • Meet in DML: work with Bookwright to finish design book
Week 12
11/26 (TUE)
C
  • Final Day to submit via blurb.com for presentation during final exam week.
  • Studio work time to finish design book
11/28 (THR)
C
  • Thanksgiving (No class)
Thanksgiving Break 11/28-12/1
Week 13
12/3 (TUE)
C
12/5 (THR)
C
Week 14
12/10 (TUE)
C
  • Presentation of Book if Final exam week does not work

Final Product Presentation during Final Exam Week

12/16 1-3pm
D
  • Final Presentation of Book
12/19 6-8pm
D
  • Final Presentation of Book




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