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ART 431 - Photography Portfolio: Digital


Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ART 331  
College Curriculum: 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 digital methodologies.  While the film and darkroom lab will be open to you outside of class, during our class meeting times, you will be working predominately in the digital lab.  You should gear your project ideas, materials, and processes accordingly.  Digital cameras, scanners, and printers will be available to you.  It is also possible to work with film during this course, but development will need to either happen outside of class or be coordinated with the instructor.

Material and process are important choices to be considered, and are made with the end artworks’ purpose in mind. ART 431 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 431 can be taken more than once to further develop a student’s photography portfolio.  Students enrolled in Photography Portfolio: Digital 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.