ART 187 - Creative Photography
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course will use a variety of techniques to explore some of the directions that photography can take and emphasizes creative techniques, contemporary ideas, issues, and individual experimentation. Students will experiment with photograms, lith prints, the Sabattier effect, cliché verre prints, and more. This course will allow students to find new forms of self-expression, both in visual career fields and on a personal level.
Prerequisites: ART 184 - Photography
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: Course Materials: $75.00
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
1. Utilize digital methods of creative photographic manipulation.
2. Experiment with mixed-media and non-traditional methods to create highly individualized photographic-based artworks.
3. Explore the role of historical photographic techniques in contemporary creative photography.
Course Objectives
1. Use software to digitally manipulate photographs for expressive effects, including the creation of photo montages.
2. Employ software to enhance or alter expression via color.
3. Combine other art-making methods with photography to produce creative photographic artworks: collage, transfers, decals.
4. Print photographic images on non-traditional materials, such as fabric.
5. Design and build a functioning pinhole camera.
6. Explore and use multiple historical/alternative photography methods to create prints. Possibilities include emulsions, cyanotypes, albumen, and Van Dyke.
7. Use darkroom techniques to manipulate prints, including dodging and burning.
8. Examine contemporary photographers’ use of historical methods.
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