This course explores how photographers work with the materiality of the medium to create representations of desired realities and interrogate “official histories,” especially those connected to colonization, migration, and gender. The course will look at techniques for intervened photography and photo-collage and apply them to creating photobooks. Students will be encouraged to think of photography as an object and to consider the audience’s experience with the materiality of photography through photobooks. Class time will engage group discussions based on reading assignments from photography theory, gender studies, and visual anthropology and the work of different LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC artists. Students will complete in-class and weekly assignments, group critiques, and a final self-directed project to produce a photobook.
InDesign, Photoshop, and Lightroom will be available on all 12 workstations in the Photo Digital Lab. Students will be required to have a Mac-compatible external hard drive and inkjet photo paper to complete assignments.
Learning Outcomes:
- Experiment with techniques for intervened photography and photo-collage and apply them to creating photobooks
- Develop skills in editing and sequencing images, and learn to identify how the key elements of storytelling are expressed materially in color, texture, and rhythm
- Participate in critical discussions about the work of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC photographers and scholars and their contributions to the field of photography
- Create new work through in-class and weekly practical assignments and through a self-directed final project
- Develop an interdisciplinary and personal approach to photography while analyzing, creating, reading, discussing, and writing about photography
- Engage with peers respectfully to make observations and give and receive feedback on work in progress
Delivery Method: Fully in-person
Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Foundations of Photography courses, either digital or analogue, or previous experience with photography. Please contact the instructor (luizafolegatti@bennington.edu).
Course Level: 4000-level
Credits: 4
F 8:30AM - 12:10PM (Full-term)
Maximum Enrollment: 10
Course Frequency: One time only
Categories: 4000 , All courses , Four Credit , Fully In-Person , Photography
Tags: gender , LBGTQIA+ , Materiality , Photo-collage , Photobook , photography , Visual Anthropology