Art 2600 Photography I, sec 1, Class #: Time: 8:00am 9:55am Art 2600 Photography I, sec 2, Class #: Time: 10:00am 11:55am

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1 Art 2600 Photography I, sec 1, Class #: Time: 8:00am 9:55am Art 2600 Photography I, sec 2, Class #: Time: 10:00am 11:55am Grading basis: A-F or audit, Credits: 3.0 credits (max 3) Prerequisites: Art 1013, and art or art education major or art or photography minor or by permission #. Lib Ed Category Information: Photography I does not fulfill the liberal education category 10. Regular academic session: Fall 2016 (8/29/16 12/09/16) Where and when the course meets: Cina 16, Monday and Wednesday Instructor: Wanda J. Pearcy, Assistant Professor, Art and Design Instructor website: Contact: wpearcy@d.umn.edu, Office location and hours: Cina 14C, Monday: Noon - 3:00pm, and by appointment. Materials required: (a kit is available in the UMD bookstore.) *Write your name on all your supplies. 1) A 32G flash drive (not in the kit). 2) Epson Ultra Premium Presentation Paper, Matte surface only can be used (in the kit). 3) Interleaving Glassine Tissues (20+) (in the kit). 4) A Photographic Presentation Box (in the kit). Suppliers: UMD stores, Kirby street level, First Photo, 316 e. central entrance, Calumet photographic Adorama Nikon B&H photo and video Canon Shutterbug Freestyle photo supplies Equipment: We have lights and tripods available for students to checkout. You will need to provide a student ID, telephone number, and address when checking out equipment. A faculty member, or lab attendant, must be present and available for equipment check out and returns. Never leave equipment sitting outside of the classroom; you are responsible for damaged or missing equipment. If equipment is not returned by the end of the semester, a final grade will not be given, the police will be notified and a hold will be put on the student s record. Shutter Speed B 1 ½ ¼ 1/8 1/15 1/30 1/60 1/125 1/250 1/500 1/1000 1/2000 MORE LIGHT LESS LIGHT Aperture 1

2 Course description: Photography I is an introduction to photographic concepts, materials, and the digital darkroom within a creative context. It is the first photo sequence course for art + design department majors, and photography and art minors. In this course, you can expect: visual presentations and/or lectures, demonstrations, viewing of photography videos, collaborative hands on experiences and group discussions of your creative work produced in the course. It is required, of students, to have a digital camera with adjustable shutter speeds and apertures, and a laptop with Photoshop available for the whole semester. Instruction will be presented only on the Macintosh platform, it is possible to use a pc; however, the demonstrations and information will be given from a Mac perspective. Course objectives: Photographic images are central to today s image-saturated culture. Through the course, you'll become increasingly familiar with how photographic imagery speaks, and learn how digital images are shot, refined, altered and printed. Students will be introduced to current work by international contemporary photographers, deliver a presentation of one of these artists and develop a portfolio of beginning photographic work. Course outcomes: Students can expect a growing understanding of the following: what to look for when purchasing digital camera equipment, how shutter speed and aperture affect the visual image of a picture, how to manually meter light using a digital camera, refining digital images using basic Photoshop functions, printing digital images with Epson equipment, scanning using Epson equipment, how visual imagery communicates and how to speak about images. Course Components and Percentages: There are three components to the course: attendance/participation, your creative work, and research. Each is worth a percentage of the final course grade. Your final grade is based on the quality of all components averaged with the below percentages. As an art class, emphasis is placed on your overall creative vision and thus your creative work is the larger percentage of the grade. 1) Attendance & participation = 10% Attendance and engagement is expected & graded. 2) Creative Work = 60% All photographic projects averaged together. 3) Research = 30% Artist/photographer biography and presentation. Attendance: You are responsible for being in class every day. Arriving on time and staying for the entire class is expected and will have a positive impact on your learning experience as well as your grade. I will be taking attendance at the beginning of the hour when class starts, right before the daily announcements. Tardiness or leaving class after attendance has been taken will have a negative affect on your learning and course grade. Regular attendance and class participation is expected and is 10% of your grade. When you miss a class, contact your classmates for notes. Do not your instructor for class lecture notes or information missed due to an absence. It is never acceptable to schedule an appointment with another instructor during this class time or leave class to register, both situations will result in being marked absent and losing attendance points for the day. *IMPORTANT/DON T MISS: Missing a critique will result in an F for that assignment and missing the final critique will result in a failing grade for the course. Daily announcements: Each day, after attendance there will be announcements given to clarify questions, change scheduled events or critiques, pick up graded work, and hear about lectures or events happening on campus. It is your responsibility to be in attendance for these daily announcements as you are responsible for the information and changes given, they will not be ed or repeated on a later date. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to get the notes from these announcements from a classmate, not your instructor. Accommodations: It is university policy to provide, on a flexible and individualized basis, reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities that may affect their ability to participate in course activities or to meet course requirements. Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact Disability Resources & Services to discuss their individual needs for accommodations. Please meet with me to discuss any special needs or limitations that could prevent you from fulfilling the requirements of this class in the first week of classes. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. 2

3 Class Critiques: Group critiques of finished projects are a valuable part of the learning process. In addition to presenting your own work, you will be expected to provide critical and productive commentary on the work of fellow students. Critiques will provide you with valuable feedback and serve to sharpen your analytical and conceptual thinking skills; active participation in the critique setting will have a very positive influence on your final grade. I expect attendance and substantial participation from you in every class critique and discussion. I urge you to speak candidly about your opinions in class critique and to listen democratically to the ideas of your classmates. Late Assignments: I do not foster handing in work late; however, I do accept late assignments. If you hand in your assignments late you will forfeit verbal feedback from your classmates. Also, any late assignment, for any reason, will receive a lowered grade, by one full grade. Personal Responsibilities: In order to complete this course successfully, you will need to budget your time wisely and plan ahead. Keep a steady process of shooting and printing going throughout the semester. Working a little each week, both with your camera and in the print lab, will teach you about the patience that is needed in the photographic process. Avoid waiting till the day before a critique to start printing your images. The digital printing studio (DPS) is often full, with a long line of people waiting to print on the night before a critique. Not getting DPS access the night before a critique is not an acceptable excuse to handing in work late without penalty. Engage with the course content and your project each and every day and use the printers during open lab times in the evening to gain practice printing. Keep a journal to allow you to jot down ideas as you go, brainstorm, sketch out ideas, take notation on artists you may want to research. It is your responsibility to ask questions in class and remain up to date on all class activities and projects. It is your responsibility to be present for the announcements of each class. It is your responsibility to take notes during all class lectures and demonstrations. Also, be aware of office hours for clarification of the notes or any confusion about the course content, as you are responsible for all content given in each class. It is your responsibility to read the syllabus in full the first week of class to clarify questions and expectations before it s too late to drop. Remaining in the class is equal to accepting all policies and course content. Communication: When you are in need of clarification regarding any aspect of the course, please ask questions while in class, others may have the same question so, you would be doing yourself and others a service. I am also available during office hours, Mondays (noon 3pm), for clarification and questions. Outside of the classroom, the official mode of communication at the University of Minnesota Duluth is . Therefore, you should check your often and prior to each of our scheduled class periods for updates. If you have a class or work during my office hours, please me in advance to schedule a time to meet. I will do my best to accommodate student s schedules when I can. I will be checking daily, Monday Friday. If there is an emergency, outside of these times, that needs a quick reply, you can call me at my home landline Make sure to state who you are, what class you are in and the state of the emergency. If my response can wait, please me. Being late to class is not an emergency, being in a car accident or in the hospital is. Sometimes a technical camera question while you re in the field could be considered an emergency. Use your judgment on that and try to understand the difference between an emergency and non-emergency. I don t mind a phone call at home if the result is learning. Security: Although the rooms in the Cina photography area are secured with electronic key card systems and locks, I encourage you to be aware of your belongings at all times. Items such as purses, backpacks, loaned equipment, or supplies should not be left unattended. Consideration: Treat other people s property, and prints with respect. Return all equipment to the appropriate place and in the appropriate time. We will be working in close proximity to one another, to aide in a positive learning experience for all please keep a cooperative attitude and assist in sharing and helping whenever you have the skills and/or tools to do so. If you are the last to leave the photo area please shut the door, as it is a locked environment when not used for classes or open labs. Digital Printing Studio (DPS): Students will receive a password that will allow them to print on the printers for their expertise level in the digital printing studio. The DPS (Digital Printing Studio) will not be open over breaks. It is expected that students using the digital printing studio will be responsible citizens in the studio, to include the following: keeping the area clean, do not eat in the digital lab, do not put any unusual material in the printers, locate any lost items 3

4 in the lost & found container in the studio, and report any misuse of materials or equipment to the lab technician on duty and your Diversity: We will be viewing a wide range of images covering global, contemporary and historic photographic ideas. These visual elements may contain images of nudity, sexual situations, alternative lifestyles, violence, and /or sensitive or challenging subject matter. It is requested that students be available and open to discussions of diverse subject matter during the course. If material of this nature is offensive to you, please meet with me during the first week of class to discuss concerns and/or alternatives. Respect is expected from and toward all individuals of any age, sex, race, sexual preference, class, culture, disability, or belief system. No disrespectful or inappropriate language or humor will be tolerated. Students with challenges that may affect their performance physically, emotionally or intellectually please inform the instructor within the first week of classes. University s Academic Honesty Policy: All photographs submitted must be your own work; no pictures of posters or images of other artist s work will be accepted as an assignment. Links to academic integrity policy and the student conduct code: Exams: There is not an exam for this course. Photo 1 is a creative course; your imagery and prints should express what you have learned technically, aesthetically and theoretically and will be assessed accordingly. Research & Presentation: Artists develop by analyzing, connecting to and/or seeing their reflection in other artist s creative choices. This assignment s purpose is to facilitate a pro-active curiosity in another artist s work to develop student s processes, skills, ideas and a beginning understanding of their own expressions. Students will present their artist s work, inspirations and biography to the class via an artist s website and/or PowerPoint presentation. This assignment will be discussed in class. Researching Photographic Arts Aperture Photography and Culture Jackson Fine Art Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago Lens Culture The Metropolitan Museum of Art Contemporary Works View Camera Camera Arts

5 Photographic Projects Overview Hand in all projects, in the black box in your photo I kit, after the critique, the day they are due. Bring your box to class, we will label them there for ease and accuracy. It will protect and separate your work from your classmates. Late assignments are accepted at the *next assignment critique and will be graded with the next assignment; the grade will be lowered 1 grade. Each assignment should include the number of print(s) due, a flash drive with all images shot for the assignment organized in Bridge per classroom instruction. The paper will always be the Epson paper in the kit. Strive for quality and meaning and do it again if you don t get it right the first or second time. Redoing work is the nature of what artist s do to perfect their personal standard. While shooting and/or designing each project keep in mind the following ways of varying the composition. By varying your position (standing, sitting, laying, upside down, from a ladder, through a window, on your side, etc ) you are more likely to discover new ways of viewing subjects and thus, new ways of understanding or experiencing. By combining techniques or ideas talked about in class (homemade tools, multiple exposures, texture screens, filter use, lens use, symbolism, quality print making, burning and dodging prints, low light shooting, etc ) you have more possibilities of coming up with something original or creative. Two old ideas merged together will create a completely new idea. Project 1 Theme: PLACE & TOOLS / The Background as the subject. Technique: Photographic Tools & Composition In the viewfinder the artist has a small amount of space in which to compose meaning and draw the viewer into their world. The photographer learns how to manipulate that space to form meaning with the use of these tools: aperture-to maneuver depth of field, shutter speed -to manipulate blur, focus ring-to manipulate focus or blur, and the view finder-to frame the composition. Explore the concept of place as an idea. How can the aperture create a focus on a place, physical or emotional; how can you manipulate the position of the camera and use the f-stop to create an image that suggests a place? How you position yourself while shooting can give the viewer a different look at a familiar place. A tool you create can help develop a very unique way of seeing and documenting. Think about creating a tool unique to how you see the world. Photography can be seen as a documentation of time via the shutter speed; it can be a moment, or multiple moments seen as a blur. Use the possibilities available to the shutter speed, aperture, viewfinder, homemade tools and focus ring to express an idea of place. The PLACE assignment: Project 2 - Theme: LIGHT & IDENTITY / How the subject speaks. Technique: Studio-Natural Lighting/The body/lynda.com How does the tone or direction of light affect what an artist expresses about their identity? Is it the quantity or placement of light that is most important to your expression? How much is being revealed? How much is hidden? Can light be used to express juxtaposition of group identity and internal identity? Using the human body and light express an idea related to the concept of identity. Focus on perfecting your images to create a meaningful composition and maybe discover a new perspective of your own identity. The IDENTITY assignment: Project 3 - Theme: STORIES / How the background and subject conspire to speak. Technique: Combine multiple techniques learned over the semester and fuse them as a style. The foundation of all art making is a balance between artist s choice and craft. Artist s focus on something of importance to them and use their skill(s) or craft to bring it to form. In your final portfolio focus on shooting what you love in your real life or fantasy life and bring it to form with the techniques that we have covered in the course. Use techniques you feel comfortable with, eliminate the ones you didn t care for. Photograph a dream life, a fantasy story, a real story etc using what you know about the digital age and truth. Merge your background and subjects to speak of your life, fantasy, truth, utopian vision The STORIES assignment: 5

6 Photography I section 1, Fall 2016 University of Minnesota, Duluth, Art + Design Department Provisional Syllabus Wanda J. Pearcy, Assistant Professor WEEK DATE TOPIC Attendance is required for all days. It is the student s responsibility to manage course time with photographic shooting time outside of class. All workdays can be used for printing work, Photoshop editing, and/or one on one consultation with the instructor. Workdays cannot be used for working in your lab top or the DPS for another class, Facebook, and/or shooting images outside of class. Be prepared for lectures and lab each and every day with your supplies on hand. Bring your cameras for each camera demonstration and if you have a camera question. Also, keep your camera instruction booklet available in your camera bag at all times. 01 Mon, 8/29 Review syllabus and discuss class structure and materials. Wed, 8/31 Watch the video American Photography; A Century of Images 02 Mon, 9/5 HOLIDAY NO CLASS Wed, 9/7 Continuation of the video American Photography; A Century of Images. Discussion of video, portraiture & landscape and their relationship. 03 Mon, 9/12 Introduce Project #1 PLACE and the website Wed, 9/14 Shutter Speed / Aperture / ISO / Manual Metering / Exposure 04 Mon, 9/19 Cameras / Camera Parts: functions & modes / Lenses / Image Quality Wed, 9/21 Review of ISO-Shutter Speed-Aperture and Lenses-focal length-filters 05 Mon, 9/26 Introduce ARTIST RESEARCH Wed, 9/28 In-class research. 06 Mon, 10/3 CLASS WILL NOT MEET/STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO RESEARCH THEIR ARTIST FOR THE RESEARCH PROJECT. NO OFFICE HOURS TODAY. Wed, 10/5 Scanning in the DPS / Bring a book of your chosen artist s work for scanning. 07 Mon, 10/10 Digital Imaging / Capture, Storage, File Format and Resolution Wed, 10/12 Organizing & storing using Bridge / Intro to Image Editing-Photoshop 08 Mon, 10/19 Image Editing / Levels / Curves / Cropping / Color Layers Wed, 10/21 CRITIQUE #1: PLACE (PROJECTED) 09 Mon, 10/24 Introduction of Project #2: IDENTITY - LECTURE Wed, 10/26 Artist Research Presentations 1 page artist bio, flashdrive with the artist bio and a folder of the aritst s high resolution images 10 Mon, 10/31 Lynda.com Research / Lighting: Available and Studio Wed, 11/2 Studio lighting / BRING PROPS, everyone is required to bring at least one creative prop, costume, mask, object 11 Mon, 11/7 Printing Demonstration Wed, 11/9 In-class printing 12 Mon, 11/14 CRITIQUE #2: IDENTITY Wed, 11/16 How the background and Subject are interwoven to create a story. 13 Mon, 11/23 MOVIE:??? Artistic Style / Francesca Woodman Wed, 11/23 NO CLASS (shoot on your own) 14 Mon, 11/28 NO CLASS (shoot on your own) Wed, 11/30 In-class editing / printing 15 Mon, 12/5 In-class printing Wed, 12/7 CRITIQUE #3: STORIES 16 Mon, 12/12 Sec. 1: 8am Portfolio pick up (portfolios left after this date will be discarded). Wed, 12/14 Sec. 2: 8am Portfolio pick up (portfolios left after this date will be discarded). 6