ARTS 122
Intro to Photography: Identity and the Absence of Representation Fall 2024
Division I

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This introductory level course offers an in-depth exploration of the DSLR camera and image by utilizing photographic digital technology. Emphasis is placed on the camera’s relationship to queer and marginalized subjects portrayed in the studio, domestic space as well as the landscape and sites of our imagination. Students will develop a fundamental control of photographic processes through technical exercises and experimentations. Students will learn how to use DSLR cameras, editing techniques and photographic curation to create a portfolio and artist statement reflecting on a personal body of work that examines the medium’s role in representing both the personal and the political. There will be weekly readings and in-depth critiques to foster theoretical and visual literacy for the analysis of works. How is photography implicated in the construction and performance of identity? How does it complicate national, cultural, gender, race and sexual identity?
The Class: Format: studio
Limit: 14
Expected: 14
Class#: 1408
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: Students midterm and final critique of their body of work and accompanying artist statement
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Art majors
Materials/Lab Fee: $300 lab fee charged to term bill. Lab and materials fees for all studio art classes are covered by the Book Grant for all Williams financial aid recipients.
Distributions: Divison I

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