MON/WED 6:10pm - 9:00pm [syllabus]
Week 1
8/31 (MON)
C
  • Introduction to class
  • Camera Basics [slides 01]
A
  • By next class:
    • E-mail instructor film camera spec
    • Go to Paul@DML by beginning of next class and check out a film camera if you do not have your own
    • If you have one, bring 35mm film and digital camera and instruction manuals to next class. Make sure you get batteries if they are out. (If not, we will lend you cameras)
    • If you do not have instruction manual for your camera (or if you buy used cameras), find one online -- for example here [Free Instruction/User/Owners Manuals].
9/2 (WED)
C
  • Discuss Readings. What is a good photograph anyway? How is photography art?
  • Bring your cameras if you have one. If not check one out before class. (DML closes 5pm).
  • Practice loading and unloading film
  • Effects on Image part 1 [slides 02]
  • Measuring light
  • Watch film camera use [video, 12 mins]
R
D
A
  • After class:
    • (Re)watch film camera use [video, 12 mins] if you have not
    • Take a few photographs (4 frames) and make sure the film is advancing.
    • Make appointment with Paul McAllister to get help and diagnosis with film loading/advancement as necessary
S
Week 2
9/7 (MON)
C
  • No class (Labor Day)
9/9 (WED)
C
R
  • By class:
    • Read Ch 1 "If this is Art" of Cotton (PACA: Photograph as Contemporary Art) by class
    • Edit Google slide [here]: search some of the artists mentioned in the chapter and find a photograph by the artist that is striking/interesting that matches the theme of the chapter and not in the textbook that matches the theme of the chapter and share by beginning of class.
A
  • Outside of class:
    • Technical exercise 1: Once you confirmed that film is advancing...Take a photograph on a roll of film of the same scene with different exposures. Two different outdoor scenes during the day with -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 stop exposure (14 frames total). Two indoor scene with well lit object -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 exposure (14 frames total). You can change exposure using either aperture or shutter speed. Use up the whole role. [slide]
S
Week 3
9/14 (MON)
C
R
  • By class:
    • Read until page 8 of "Photography and time: decoding the decisive moment" by Rich Cutler (2012) [PDF]
A
S
  • Massive dev chart for development times for various films
  • "The Color Work" by Vivian Maier
  • "Between Worlds" by Harry Gruyaert
9/16 (WED)
C
Group A: Revan, Isabel, Eamon, Sylvia, Tyler, Destiny, Aris
Group B: Alina, Keanu, Tate, Mallory, Delyse, Kael, Madden
R
  • By class:
    • Ch5 "Intimate Life" of PACA by Cotton
    • Edit Google slide [here]: search some of the artists mentioned in the chapter and find a photograph by the artist that is striking/interesting (ideally not ones in textbook) that matches the theme of the chapter and share by beginning of class
A
S
Week 4
9/21 (MON)
C
A
9/23 (WED)
C
A
Week 5
9/28 (MON)
C
  • Darkroom review [slides] + view your dakroom prints (please pin them up before class)
  • "The Contact Sheet" by Steve Crist, "Magnum Contact Sheets"
  • Contrast filters, histograms, towards digital imaging [slides] [video, 11 mins]
  • Chem replacement go to 5min 45sec of [video, 11 mins]
R
  • By class:
    • Ch2 "Once Upon a Time" of PACA by Cotton
    • Edit Google slide [here]: search some of the artists mentioned in the chapter and find a photograph by the artist that is striking/interesting (ideally not ones in textbook) that matches the theme of the chapter and share by beginning of classes
D
A
  • Outside of class you should be...
    • Watch burning/dodging, contrast filters, chem mix [video, 11 mins]
    • Working on darkroom project 1 (Photographs of People, Portraits as Art)
S
9/30 (WED)
C
A
Week 6
10/5 (MON)
C
A
10/7 (WED)
C
  • Studio work time
Week 7
10/12 (MON)
C
  • Critique (Group A Shows. Everybody participates)
D
  • Group A [darkroom project 1 (Photographs of People, Portraits as Art)] due. Pin photographs before class starts. No working once critique starts.
10/14 (WED)
C
  • Critique Part 2 (Group B shows. Everybody participates)
D
  • Group B [Darkroom Project 1 (Photographs of People, Portraits as Art)] due. Pin photographs before class starts. No working once critique starts.
10/17 - 10/25 FALL BREAK
Week 8
10/26 (MON)
C
Print format for your last 3 handins (excluding the "bad photo" exercise):
For each of the three below, choose darkroom print or digital print -- but you must use both processes at least once across the three (i.e. not all darkroom, not all digital).
R
  • By class:
    • "New Topographics" [PDF] or [PDF with my highlights] p9-67 from "New Topographics" by Britt Salvesen It is long. I hope you enjoy it in full but if you cannot read the full text, read p1 - beginning of p12 and then look at the highlighted sentences, and the photos
S
A
10/28 (WED)
C
  • Assign Project 2 (Pictures of Places/Things. Landscape/Still Life as Art) -- digital or darkroom print
  • Latoya Ruby Frazier's landscapes: The Grey Area, The Notion of Family
  • Lighting and flash [slides] [example]
  • Flash use in bad photo exercise
A
S
  • The Maze by Donovan Wylie (photobook)
  • Is this Place Great or What by Brian Ulrich
Week 9
11/2 (MON)
C
R
  • By class:
    • Ch3 "Deadpan" of PACA by Cotton
    • Edit Google slide [here]: search some of the artists mentioned in the chapter and find a photograph by the artist that is striking/interesting (ideally not ones in textbook) that matches the theme of the chapter and share by beginning of class
S
D
A
11/4 (WED)
C
L
  • [Recommended] Sign up for individual scanning workshop with Paul
A
11/6 (FRI)
L
  • [Recommended] 10am - 11am Workshop at DML with Paul
    • Preparing photographs for printing in Photoshop (cropping, rotating, resizing)
Week 10
11/9 (MON)
C
  • Studio work time
L
  • [Recommended] Sign up for
    • individual scanning workshop
    • or preparing photographs for printing in Photoshop (cropping, rotating, resizing) before submitting your files to the printer
    with Paul
D
A
11/11 (WED)
C
  • Look at Newtopographic photographs
  • Review technically Bad Photographs [slides]
  • Something and Nothing [slides]
R
  • By class:
    • Ch4 "Something and Nothing" of PACA by Cotton
    • Edit Google slide [here]: search some of the artists mentioned in the chapter and find a photograph by the artist that is striking/interesting (ideally not ones in textbook) that matches the theme of the chapter and share by beginning of class
S
D
Week 11
11/16 (MON)
C
  • Studio work time
  • Please note that if you are presenting digital prints, you are asked to submit the digital files one day in advance
D
  • Group A: Please submit digital file by Tuesday morning for it to be ready for Wednesday critique
  • Printing in the DML. Submit digital files to be printed [here][instructions/information]
11/18 (WED)
C
  • Group A: Critique
D
  • Project 2 (Pictures of Places/Things. Landscape/Still Life as Art) due. Pin photographs before class starts. No working once critique starts.
  • Group B: Please submit digital file by Friday morning for it to be ready for Monday critique
  • Printing in the DML. Submit digital files to be printed [here][instructions/information]
Week 12
11/23 (MON)
C
  • Group B: Critique
D
11/25 (WED)
C
  • Thanksgiving (no class)
11/26 - 11/29 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 13
11/30 (MON)
C
  • Studio work time (take advantage of the resources available to you to make work)
12/2 (WED)
C
  • Studio work time (take advantage of the resources available to you to make work)
Week 14
12/7 (MON)
C
  • Studio work time (take advantage of the resources available to you to make work)
12/9 (WED)
C
  • Studio work time (take advantage of the resources available to you to make work)
Final Exam 12/14 - 17 (MON-THR)
CRITIQUE DURING FINALS WEEK -- NOTE DIFFERENT SCHEDULE!
Finals Week
TBD
D
  • Final Critique (Group A)


  • Final Project: Open-ended.
    Please submit digital files at least 24 hours in advance for printing
    • Develop Project 1 or Project 2 taking account feedback from critique. (You can use photos from past project if less than half).
    • Or do entirely new project you always wanted to do
TBD
D
  • Final Critique (Group B)


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