Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0148 - Darkroom & Lensless Photograph

Tristan Tzara described Many Ray's photograms as "ineffably charged with dreams like the geological layers that we use for bed sheets." In this course students will explore the magic - and some physics - of photograms and other lensless photographic techniques. This class is a foundational photography course and will cover the fundamentals of the darkroom and the basics of photography through a range of light capturing processes such as photograms, pinhole cameras, printing out paper, photomontage and camera obscuras. Assignments, readings, collaborative projects, and field trips will give students the opportunity to practice and develop their own language around photographic abstraction and produce a coherent body of work. Students must attend one mandatory lab session each week from 6-7:20pm on either Wednesdays or Thursdays.

Arts, Design, and Media Independent Work Lab fee: $65. Possible field trip fee TBD. In this course, students can expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.