Consent of instructor required. Studio practice in sculpture at the intermediate level. Group and individual discussion and critique. An emphasis on how to see with the camera and ways of thinking about photographs. Class assignments accompanied by historical and theoretical readings, lectures, class discussions, and field trips.
Final projects are a self-portrait series and an individual documentary essay.
Emphasis on the tradition and practice of documentary photography as a way of seeing and interpreting cultural life. The role such issues as objectivity, clarity, politics, memory, autobiography, and local culture play in the making and dissemination of photographs. Further description can be found in PPS 176S . Further description can be found in PPS 177S . Studio practice in painting with individual and group criticism and discussion of important historic or contemporary ideas.