ARTS 127
Introduction to Digital Photography: Photography & Identity Spring 2024
Division I

Class Details

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 digital 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, 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 Bridge and Photoshop, and inkjet printing.
The Class: Format: studio
Limit: 12
Expected: 12
Class#: 3909
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: Students must budget 8 hours a week outside of class to photograph, edit, print, read, and write. Students will be evaluated on their effort and active participation, contributions to discussions and critiques, midterm critique, final project, and artist statement.
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Preferences: Art majors, seniors who have not taken a photography class at Williams, and everyone else.
Materials/Lab Fee: $300 Lab and materials fees for all studio art classes are covered by the Book Grant for all Williams financial aid recipients.
Distributions: Division I

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