Readings are assigned. Holly Smith Pedlosky's biography is above. At each meeting, students bring their work for group discussion. Instructors offer philosophical and aesthetic advice that incorporates insights from the history of photography and the history of women's participation in the creation of cultural meaning. In addition, the instructors teach how to master techniques of composition in order to communicate multi-valent photographic ideas, to make photographic books, to edit photographs, to digitize images, and to design a website.
Emphasis is on the creation of artwork that is richly allusive.
Students have access to the photographic archives of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and the Fine Arts Library at Harvard. A darkroom for processing and printing black and white photos is available for a lab fee. Each student prepares a final project in the form of a portfolio, a photographic book or album, a slide show, or a mixed media presentation. Student work will be exhibited in the spring of 2001 as an on-line Web exhibition. This studio is open to intermediate to advanced students who feel ready to produce a focused body of work.