Instructor: Aki Miyoshi
E-Mail: miyos at reed dot edu
Meeting times: T & TH 6:10PM - 9PM
Office hours: TBA

Schedule: http://people.reed.edu/~miyos/S08/Caph2/caph2_schedule.html

Course Description: Full course for one semester. Students are expected to have basic black and white darkroom skills. The course will introduce fiber-based printing, larger scale printing, medium format materials, color, and digital imaging. With elementary skills and historical context in place, the class will continue to investigate the use of photography in the context of contemporary art. Technical, aesthetic, and conceptual possibilities of photography are explored through shooting assignments, readings, slide presentations and critiques.

Required Text: None

Recommended Text:
Technique/Craft
  • Photography (8th Edition) by Barbara London, John Upton. Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131896091
Theory/History
Materials: Sources for supply: Local photo/digital resources Evaluation: Come to class. Participate. Work in class. Work out of class. Read. Be responsible. Hand in assignments on time....Make work. Make work for your self (not for your instructor). Thoughtful work is good. Craft is important. Come to class prepared to work.

On Assignments: The assignments are given to you as a starting point. They are suggestions. If they take you to another direction that is fine. If you have something else you want to do, talk to the instructor. The assignments are often described based on its formal properties (eg. multiple prints, mural prints...etc). They define the framework in which you are to operate merely as a starting point. How you use that framework and develop out of it is up to you (and that is probably more important). Depending on the context, your work may outgrow the framework.

Equipment Checkout: You may checkout equipment during class time (from your instructor), or during lab business hours (from Digital Media Assistant -- Todd Johnson) M, W, F: 9 - 5pm and T, TH: 9 - 12pm. Please respect these checkout times.