Final Critique: December 11 from 6 - 8pm

We will meet in Ball Hall 321 for the final critique.  Please bring your entire project from this semester along with a typed project statement.

Week 15 / Dec. 4 and Dec. 6

In-class work activity: research and lab time towards completing project for final critique

Week 14 / Nov. 27 and Nov. 29

Critique on Tuesday in room 321 with visiting photo scholar Alison Nordström.  Bring all prints from the project for feedback.

Meet at Reece Museum at 5pm on Thursday for lecture by Alison Nordström followed by reception for Tema Stauffer's New Faculty Solo Exhibition, UPSTATE.

Week 13 / Nov. 20

In-class work activity: research and lab time

No class on Thursday, Nov. 22 (Thanksgiving break)

Week 12 / Nov. 13 and Nov. 15

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Week 11 / Nov. 6 and Nov. 8

Lecture and discussion: Physical and Material

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Week 10 / Oct. 30 and Nov. 1

Film screening: Art in the Twenty-First Century / Cindy Sherman (make-up) 

Reading: Chapter 8: “Physical and Material” 

In-class work activity: lab time

Field trip on Thursday, Nov. 1 to Reece Museum for FL3THC3R lecture (5pm) and reception (6-8pm) 

Week 9 / Oct. 23 and Oct. 25

Lecture and discussion: Bearing Witness and Documentary Practices

Reading: Chapter 7: “Revived and Remade” 

Lecture and discussion: Revived and Remade

Film screening: Art in the Twenty-First Century / Cindy Sherman

In-class work activity: lab time 

Xhenet Aliu reading and book signing at the Reece Museum on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 5pm. 

Week 8 / Oct. 18

Reading: Chapter 6: “Moments in History” 

Film screening: Manufactured Landscapes

Week 7 / Oct. 9 and Oct. 11

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Mid-term critique on Thursday, Oct. 11 - approximately 8-12 prints with typed one-page project statement draft

Week 6 / Oct. 2 and Oct. 11

Film screening at 7pm in Ball Hall Auditorium: Mommy, Xavier Dolan

Lecture and discussion: Intimacy, Family, Community and Subculture 

Reading: Chapter 6: “Moments in History” 

Student presentations on contemporary photographers

Week 5 / Sept. 25 and Sept. 27

Field trip: meet at Reece Museum on Tuesday. Sept. 25 at 6pm for Liz Miller's on The Shoreline Project exhibition

Lecture and discussion: Perception and the Everyday

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Reading: Chapter 5, 'Intimate Life'

Artist Affinities research and writing assignment:

Research another artist who informs and inspires your current project.  Write a one-page paper including biographical information and a summary/analysis of the artist's work, with emphasis on a specific body or bodies of work that relate(s) to your own work. Highlight examples and write concrete descriptions of and commentary about individual images. Prepare a slide presentation of approximately 20 images.  You can create a PowerPoint presentation or create a folder of images which we can view in Bridge's slide show.  Ideal image size for presentation is 768x1024px, but images can be slightly smaller or larger.  If you are searching for images on the the Web, please search for LARGE images.  You can also photograph or scan images from books for better results. Your presentation can include video under 10 min. but must also include still images. You will be presenting your paper and slide show on Thursday, October 4th. Presentations will be approximately 20min.

Week 4 / Sept. 18 and Sept. 20

Lecture and discussion: The Deadpan

Project proposals and materials' requests due on Tuesday, Sept. 18

Individual meetings to discuss proposals

In-class work activity: lab time

Assigned Reading: Chapter 4, 'Something and Nothing'

Week 3 / Sept. 11 and Sept. 13

Lecture and discussion: Storytelling and Staging

Film screening: Gregory Crewdson, Brief Encounters

In-class work activity: discuss and develop project proposals

Reading: Chapter 3, 'The Deadpan'

Week 2 / Sept. 4 and Sept. 6

Lecture and discussion: Strategies, Happenings and Performance

Screening: Art Safari / Sophie Calle

Student Presentations on influential photographers' websites

Reading: Chapter 2, 'Once Upon a Time'

Week 1 / Aug. 28 and Aug. 30

Welcome back to the fall semester and Practicing Photography. In our first class, we will review the syllabi, make student introductions, and read essays. 

Readings: Introduction and Chapter 1, “If This is Art” and “Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult, Paul Graham

Required text: The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art), Charlotte Cotton, 3rd Edition
available at ETSU bookstore or online

Bring 10 examples of previous project to second class to introduce your work to the class and be prepared to discuss project ideas and artist influences for this semester.