You are expected to come to class with some experience in solving visual problems. This course will stress the basics in processing and printing Black and White photographs, you should recognize right away that photographic manipulation of form is of a different nature than what you might have experienced with other media, and you should pay particular effort to control the photographic image. We are not concerned with traditional problems and routine or formulated solutions in your visualization. Specific unique seeing is our goal and success is incumbent upon 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 judgment, 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 absences will affect your final grade. Satisfactory completion of a series of visual assignments. These assignments will be due periodically through out the semester. At the end of the semester these grades will be totaled and placed on a curve to determine your final grade.