700 Million Miles an Hour: Photography Then & Now Instructor: Rebecca Cummins, Art This course will emphasize photography's potential for self-expression and creative problem solving in an arts context. The course will provide an introduction to basic principles of light and optics, artistic methods, and techniques of photography using a digital camera and pinhole photography. Content will be delivered through slide lectures, field trips to local exhibition venues and location sites, workshops, discussion, readings, assignment reviews and consultations. Lab work will be comprised of camera operation, digital image processing, pinhole camera construction, B/W printing from pinhole camera negatives and on-line presentation. Each student will complete photographic projects (both on-line and in print form), submit a gallery review and participate in class group reviews and discussions. Each assignment is designed to stimulate consideration of a conceptual approach and to encourage unique personal aesthetic solutions. A digital camera with a minimum 5 Megapixel capacity and memory card(s) of minimum 1GB is required. You will spend approximately $60; commercial printing facilities will also be utilized. Meets: MTWTh 9:30-12:00
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