ART 430 - Photography Portfolio: Darkroom

Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ART 331
Domain (Anchored): ALV
This course is designed to help you develop your photographic art practice. This course provides you with the time, facilities, equipment, and instruction to build a body of photographic work of your choosing, based largely in analog, film, and darkroom processes. While the digital photography lab will be open to you outside of class, during our class meeting times, you will be working predominately in the wet lab. You should gear your project ideas, materials, and processes accordingly. You can work with anything from 35mm, medium format, to large format photography.

Material and process are important choices to be considered, and are made with the end artworks’ purpose in mind. ART 430 will introduce principals of the photography portfolio, exhibition, publishing, best practices for launching and sustaining a creative career and/or graduate school preparations.

Additionally, you will work towards a better understanding of your work within the context of contemporary art. Class time will be divided between portfolio planning, artist presentations and discussions in contemporary photographic practices, and class critique. This course may include field trips to see regional exhibitions of contemporary photography. The culmination of this course is a well-developed, cohesive portfolio of your work. This is an advanced photography seminar with an emphasis on the development of your ideas and the honing of your technique.

ART 430 can be taken more than once to further develop a student’s photography portfolio. Students enrolled in Photography Portfolio: Darkroom during subsequent semesters may be given alternative course requirements to further their personal research to include additional readings, photography book editing, sequencing, and publishing, or various other projects that are tailored to the specific student’s needs.

Above all else, this course is designed to allow students to experiment with ideas, to push ideas through to completion or exhaustion, to receive critical feedback from their peers and instructor, and to begin building a sustainable creative practice.
Course may be repeated it topic varies, up to 9 credits.