Photography Courses
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60113 Darkroom to Digital Photography (Mini)
This course explores how to combine film photography practices with contemporary digital imaging in a workshop environment. Topics include film scanning and digitizing, combining analog cameras with digital cameras to create unique capture devices and utilizing proper…
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60244 Contemporary Photographic Theory
Because, you know, the photographs are more a question than a reply. (Sebastiao Salgado) A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. (Salman Rushdie) This seminar investigates current topics in…
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60245 Portrait Photography
Portraiture maintains a unique standing in photography for its direct and collaborative relationship between an individual and a photographer. This course will examine this relationship and the larger contexts which provide the conceptual framework for deriving meaning and…
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60279 Photography and the Ineffable
This course explores the relationship between photography and the indescribable, intangible and hard-to-see. From the spiritual, to the sublime, to the abstract; we will review different frameworks for thinking about the ineffable and how it relates to photographic work.…
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60460 Advanced Studio: Open Print, Drawing and Photo Workshop
A flexible, interdisciplinary studio, this course offers the opportunity for exploration across printmaking, drawing and photography. Rather than building toward a single prescribed outcome, the workshop emphasizes process, experimentation and skill-building, encouraging…
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62138 Photographic Lighting Techniques
This half semester studio will introduce students to a variety of photographic lighting techniques, conceptual approaches, equipment and technical applications. Students will work with natural and artificial lighting across a range of photographic methods, applying their…
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62139 Photography as Meditation: A Walking Photographic Practice
This half-semester studio course will explore the ways in which walking and photography intersect as a meditative practice to benefit creative work. Students will be introduced to these approaches through a series of readings, photographic prompts, lectures and excursions.…
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62141 Black and White Photography I
This course will teach you the basic craft of photography from exposure of the negative through darkroom developing and printing to print finishing and presentation. Content includes student presentations, class discussions, shooting assignments, darkroom sessions and…
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62142 Digital Photography I
This course explores digital photography and digital printing methods. By semester's end students will have knowledge of contemporary trends in photography, construction (and deconstruction) of photographic meaning, aesthetic choices and the use of color. Students will…
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62208 Alternative Photography: Contemporary Antiquarian Printing (Mini)
This course will explore alternative photographic techniques and concepts in an effort to extend the boundaries of the photographic image. Through the course we will investigate contemporary digital imaging techniques and apply them to turn-of-the-last-century hand-applied…
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62241 Black and White Photography II
Black and White Photography II continues developing your technical skills in analog photography by introducing medium and large format cameras and prints. Large format view cameras remain the state of the art in control and quality in both film and digital photography.…
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62279 Images in Space: Photographic Objects, Materiality, and Installation
This course explores the relationship between photography and dimensionality. We will review different frameworks for how photographs interact in physical space, including photographic objects, installations and materialities. Students will explore these themes through…
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62281 Intermediate Digital Photography
Formed around a series of workshops, this course will explore digital and analog image-making processes, using both old and new methodologies, at times combined, yielding a unique experience. Basic techniques will be reviewed but the course quickly progresses to subjects…
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62360 Photographers and Photography Since World War II
Invented in 1839, photography was a form of visual expression that immediately attracted a large public following. Starting around 1900, photography was practiced with two dominant strands. One of these firmly believed in the power of photographs to provide a window on the…
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62371 Photography, The First 100 Years, 1839–1939
Photography was announced to the world almost simultaneously in 1839, first in France and then a few months later in England. Accurate "likenesses" of people were available to the masses, and soon reproducible images of faraway places were intriguing to all. This course…
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62398 Interdisciplinary Independent Study: Topics in Photography
This course is a tutorial studio in which a student proposes a self-generated project and works one-on-one with a photography instructor of their choice to complete it. Students can choose this course as 5 or 10 units, in consultation with the CFA Photography…
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62474 The Weight of Images: Making Stories and Books with Photographs
In this course, we will create books that explore visual narrative, sequencing and sculptural form through the medium of photography. Additionally, we will consider the roles of image and text as well as design, editing, printing and binding. Our work will be informed by…
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