ART 3699 - Photography: Special Topics

(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)

Fall or spring. Not offered every year. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: ART 2601 or permission of instructor.

Staff.

This course explores the composite image generated through various lens-based practices and equipment such as still and video camera, scanner, internet, etc. It is an intensive experimental studio integrating digital strategies of negative production to create images produced with traditional light-sensitive materials. Alternative photographic methods are approached as a printmaking process. Students are encouraged to work outside the camera and beyond the negative edge. The history of photographic print materials from the photogenic drawing of Talbot to the contemporary gelatin silver print will be introduced. Images will be produced using cyanotype, Vandyke brown, gum bichromate, and palladium emulsions.

Fall Topic: Photography: Alternative Photographic Processes - The Composite Image