FACULTY | Rian Dundon |
DAY / TIME | Thursday 6-9pm | September 26 - December 5, 2024* |
*No class on November 28 — Thanksgiving Break | |
TUITION | $870 |
Payment & Refund Policy Scholarship Opportunities |
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FORMAT | Hybrid: Online + Two In-Person Sessions. This class will be primarily hosted as a live, interactive online course utilizing the Zoom platform along with Google Drive for sharing files; two sessions will be hosted in-person (dates TBD). Enrollment is limited to 12 students. |
LEVEL | Intermediate |
PREREQS | Photography I |
CREDITS | 3 – Fulfills Elective requirement for Certificate Program |
This timely course will explore practice and theory related to documentary photography about protests, elections, and the media. Offered during the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, we will attempt to navigate the froth of modern political photography, spurring participants toward a closer read of our fractured moment and the role of images in it. Students will work to conceptualize their approach to picture making within these contexts, and expand their strategies for seeing current events in creative and unconventional ways.
Participants in this course will be expected to produce—or continue working on—a body of work demonstrating a coherent visualization of a relevant subject. Emphasis will be placed on establishing a distinctive personal style and approach to visual storytelling. We will use the photographic process as a means for developing self awareness, considering ethics in representation, consent, surveillance, and propaganda, and to study the work of photographers whose consideration of Boorstin’s “thicket of unreality” goes deeper than the surface.
Never before have social movements been more thoroughly documented than they are today. Conversely, its never been more difficult to meaningfully photograph public dissent. This course will explore some of the potentials and pitfalls for imaging protests and critical political discourse in the mediated age.
IMPORTANT NOTES FOR STUDENTS
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