ADVANCED PHOTO SEMINAR JRN 405/605-ART 465/665 Thursdays 9:45-12:45 p.m., Bunnell #106 Professor: Charles Mason, Bunnell #102D, 474-6217 cwmason@alaska.edu Lab Manager: Jason Lazarus Labs: Bunnell #127 and #128 Studio: Bunnell #129 COURSE PURPOSE: GENERAL INFORMATION: This course is designed to provide the student who has completed other UAF advanced photo courses with an opportunity for further work in and discussion of current issues in photojournalism, documentary photography, and art photography. The emphasis on the course will be placed on classroom discussions and critiques, some project work together, and a final portfolio, of the student’s choosing, which will be worked on thoughout the semester and will be due at the end of the course. COURSE REQUIREMENTS: We will meet weekly. Very early in the semester you will choose a final project, from a technical and aesthetic area of your interest. This may be in the form of a group project, an individual project, or some of both. The seminar will provide a forum for discussing the ongoing term projects and seeing that work in progress. You are thus expected to have new work to show on a weekly basis. You must pick a project that allows for this. There will be a weekly accounting of your work. There will be also be some weekly “mini” photo assignments, as topics come up. According to class interest, there may also be meetings in the studio or field to work on shooting techniques, and in the darkrooms or digital labs for work on technical skills. I also hope to bring in one or two noted area photographers as guests during the semester. We may view photo related films on occasion. Each student will be assigned a date on which to make a class presentation on a photographer or photographic topic of your choosing.
ADVANCED PHOTO SEMINAR JRN 405/605-ART 465/665 Thursdays 9:45-12:45 p.m., Bunnell #106 Professor: Charles Mason, Bunnell #102D, 474-6217 cwmason@alaska.edu Lab Manager: Jason Lazarus Labs: Bunnell #127 and #128 Studio: Bunnell #129 COURSE PURPOSE: GENERAL INFORMATION: This course is designed to provide the student who has completed other UAF advanced photo courses with an opportunity for further work in and discussion of current issues in photojournalism, documentary photography, and art photography. The emphasis on the course will be placed on classroom discussions and critiques, some project work together, and a final portfolio, of the student’s choosing, which will be worked on thoughout the semester and will be due at the end of the course. COURSE REQUIREMENTS: We will meet weekly. Very early in the semester you will choose a final project, from a technical and aesthetic area of your interest. This may be in the form of a group project, an individual project, or some of both. The seminar will provide a forum for discussing the ongoing term projects and seeing that work in progress. You are thus expected to have new work to show on a weekly basis. You must pick a project that allows for this. There will be a weekly accounting of your work. There will be also be some weekly “mini” photo assignments, as topics come up. According to class interest, there may also be meetings in the studio or field to work on shooting techniques, and in the darkrooms or digital labs for work on technical skills. I also hope to bring in one or two noted area photographers as guests during the semester. We may view photo related films on occasion. Each student will be assigned a date on which to make a class presentation on a photographer or photographic topic of your choosing.