ARTS 126
Intro to Digital Photography: Photography and Identity Spring 2023
Division I

This introductory studio course focuses on the making, editing, and printing of digital photographs, with particular emphasis on understanding photography’s crucial role in shaping, revising, and visualizing identities. Rooted in the creation of original artworks, the course exposes students to the dslr camera as a tool for developing a personal visual syntax and a body of work throughout the semester. The course oscillates between class discussions, critiques, technical demonstrations, and studio work-time. We’ll consider how photography intersects with digital technologies, surveillance, media, social media, colonial legacies, race, feminisms, gender, queerness, and archives. Through discussions and the study of artworks and texts, students will develop visual literacy skills to aid in the critical analysis, and creation, of photographs. Technically, students will learn to understand light and exposure, composition, color correction, a digital workflow through Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, and inkjet printing.