ARTS 227
Moving Photography Spring 2019
Division I
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In this intermediate photography course, students will explore the rich interplay between photography and movies. Many still photographers invoke the aesthetics of cinema, critique its conventions, and investigate the way films create desire. For example, An-My Lê photographing slightly behind the scenes on the set of “The Free State of Jones” and Gregory Crewdson asking the viewer to linger within cinematic still images unmoored from narrative logic. Students will learn to wield cinematic convention and style within their own photographs. We will discuss narrative sequencing and how visual form (such as the angular light and oblique framing of film noir) can itself be thematic. We will also engage with the recent emergence of slightly-moving photographs by artists such as Dru Donovan and Owen Kydd. In a series of projects and a self-directed final, students will create their own still and moving photographs informed by the relationship between movies and photography.