Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0245 - The Photobook

This course will explore the photobook's contribution to the evolving narrative of photography. Focusing on the global photobook community with an emphasis on the intersection of image and text. Special attention will be payed to contemporary photobook examples and scholarship to examine the development of small and large press publishing. We will study examples of notable works that have recently emerged. Students will create their own books as well and will learn strategies that will help translate the photograph into a variety of formats, ranging from full monographs to experimental visual slideshows. Students will learn to edit and sequence their images; they will study basic design principles and create book layouts using Adobe InDesign; they will hand-produce books and will explore available options for on-demand printing using services such as Blurb and Newspaper club. (keywords: photography, photobooks, publishing, bookmaking, image-text)

Time and Narrative This course is fully remote. Students in this course can expect to spend 7 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.