This course will stress both technical theory and materials as well as personal development in expression. A particular effort should be made to control your negative quality and printing. We are not concerned with traditional problems and routine or formularized solutions in your visualization. Specific unique seeing is our goal and success is incumbent the ability to explore, with an open mind, a number of visual possibilities. Personal taste is an issue in this course not as something to be satisfied. nor criterion for judgement, but instead as something to be made more intelligent and more sophisticated, through a process of continual challenge.
Attendance is mandatory.
This is an experience class and growth comes only through continued active participation. Roll is taken daily and an excess of two unexcused absenses will affect your final grade. Satisfactory completion of a series of technical assignments. The assignments will be due mid way through the semester. They are geared toward achieving a better understanding and control over the photographic process.