COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE 510-294-DW Imaging Themes (Photography 1, section 2)
INSTRUCTOR Andres Manniste
INSTITUTION Dawson College
PROGRAM Photography
SEMESTER Winter 2014
OBJECTIVE AND COMPETENCY: To critique works of visual arts and to assess the photographic potential of social phenomena
OFFICE & TELEPHONE Office: 2G6-3 Telephone: 931-8731, ext. 3203
amanniste@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
SYLLABUS
Week 1 (January 17): Lecture: Introduction to course. Intention and Artifice.
Reading: William J. Mitchell (1994) “Intention and Artifice” in
The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, Cambridge:
MIT Press, pp.23-57. (.pdf version)
Week 2: (January
24) Lecture: The Portrait, review of basic design principles. Early Photography and the Artist (Slideshow)
Browsing: Robert Leggat, The History of Photography
PROJECT 1: THE PORTRAIT (three view points), presentation of project (20%)
Reading: Jonathan Jones and Gerard Seenan (2004) "The
camera today? You can't
trust
it.
Hockney
sparks
a
debate",
Guardian
Unlimited, March 4, 2004.
Homework: Tear sheets of compositional organizations.
Written proposals( How
to write a Project.) and preliminary work (project writing .pdf version).
Browsing: Robert Leggat, PORTRAITURE from The History of Photography
Jeanne Ivy, The Self Portrait
Week 3: (January 31)
The Portrait (Slideshow)
Discussion of tear sheets: "Line direction"
Lab: Drawing and painting workshop. Exercise: Vertical, horizontal, diagonal manipulated photographs and a selfie. (examples)
Week 4: (February 7) Written proposals and preliminary work due. Discussion of proposals.
Studio work: Drawing and painting
Reading: Art Criticism as a Four Step Process (.pdf version)
Week
5: (February 14) *Project
#1 THE PORTRAIT due
Presentation of Project
#1, group discussions.
Studio work: Simple animations
Week 6: (February 21)
Studio work: More about animations
Week 7: (February 28)
PROJECT 2: THE DOCUMENTARY(News), Social phenomena (link to slides) include all behavior which influences or is influenced by
organisms sufficiently alive to respond to one another.
Homework: Written proposal for a documentary How
to write a Project. (5%)
Studio work: html
Week 8:
(March 7, MID-TERM)
Lecture: The origins of creativity
*Written proposal for a documentary due.
Studio work: more html
Week 9: (March 14)
Presentations of documentary
proposals, discussion and methods. (25%)
Lab: More html.
MID-TERM BREAK March 17-21
Week 10: (March 28)
Photoshop directional portrait exercise due ( Vertical, horizontal, diagonal manipulated photographs and a selfie.)
Introduction to PROJECT 3: GROUP WORK/CONCEPTUAL APPROACH (Death of the object)
Conceptual photography (link to slides)
Working in groups- preparatory work. Homework: Final Project written proposals (5%)
Project 3: Death of the object
The final project may be approached in many ways:
1. The photographer as the artist. You create and participate in the documentation of an artwork. The documentation is part of the artwork.
2. Photography for documentation:The photographer as an outside observer and recorder of a conceptual object or performance.
3. The photographer as a collaborator: Works with another artist in the creation of an event.
The project must be a concrete document. Think about scale, transformation and presentation.
Independent work session, working on documentary. Media in .html.
Week 11: (April 4)
*Documentary
assignment due.
Presentation of Project
#2, group discussion.
Homework: Written self-critique(5%)
Week 12: (April 11)
*Written proposal for final project due.
Analysis
of project proposals and formation of groups. (25%)
Lab: Work session
EASTER BREAK April 18-21
Week
13: (April 25)
Lab: Work session
Week 14: (May 2)
Lab: Work session
Week 15: (May 9) *Presentations and discussion
*Written
self-critique of project due. (How to do a self-critique)
(May 14, 2014 at 15:00, last time to receive all projects)