ART 217 - Creative Photography: from Sun to Pixel

Semester Hours: 4

This course will examine the use of photography as a means for creative expression. Projects will approach the medium to communicate meaning as a contemporary art practice - including image capturing, image appropriation and its reference to visual culture. Traditional photography skills will be taught, along with camera-less exposure processes such as pinhole cameras and cyanotypes. The course will introduce a range of presentation and output options for photographs - from printing onto two-dimensional mediums, transferring onto objects, projecting onto surfaces, and many more. Additionally, students will explore themes tied intimately to the photograph, such as memory, nostalgia, identity, performance, and the document.

Intellectual Perspective: VP