COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE:
Imaging & The Creative Process
510-295-DW / 01
INSTRUCTOR: Andres Manniste
INSTITUTION: Dawson College
PROGRAM: Photography
SEMESTER: Winter 2014
OBJECTIVE AND COMPETENCIES:
0495: To develop creativity.
PONDERATION: 1-2-1
OFFICE & TELEPHONE Office: 2G6-3 Telephone: 931-8731, ext. 3203
amanniste@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This course is intended to introduce students to the creative potential of concept and narrative in photography. Through on-going exposure to both historical and contemporary photographic practices students will explore a range of image making strategies. In and out of class projects using both photography and hands-on art making will further develop students understanding of the relationship between the mediums form and content.
GRADE DISTRIBUTION A minimum grade of 60% is required to pass this course.
90% - Exercises and projects
10% - Studio practice and professional attitude.
Uncollected assignments will be kept until Week 7 of the subsequent term after which they will be discarded.
SYLLABUS
Class 1 (Jan 21)
Alfred Stieglitz (c. 1922)
INTRODUCTION Materials, slide lecture (Formalism)
Class 2 (Jan 28)
László Moholy-Nagy (1927) Jealousy
DESIGN BASICS
LECTURE: balance, emphasis, movement in photo and fine arts (slides)
Assignment #1: serial photographs for visual journal
In Class: Learning to work with thumbnails
HOMEWORK: Complete exercises that demonstrate
a) Balance - Counterbalance
b) Movement-Lack of movement
c) Flat -Deep space
Class 3 (Feb 4)
Hi. Bye. (2011) Wilhem Staehle
COMPOSITION: demonstration on re-working images, in class
review photos start compositions
HOMEWORK: composition due for next class
Class 4 (Feb 11)
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| Angel Diptych, Dustin Panzino | Diptych, Mark Laita |
SERIAL IMAGES DUE (hard copies)
LECTURE: strategies for creating photographic series
Assignment #2: juxtaposed images (.pdf)
HOMEWORK: research assignment #2
Class 5 (Feb 18)
BRAINSTORMING
LECTURE: films, discuss previous two weeks of image making and collecting
HOMEWORK: work on visual journal and do the exercises in shape (opens in new window)
Class 6 (Feb 25)
JUXTAPOSITION IMAGES DUE (to be projected)
CRITIQUE /MID-TERM
HOMEWORK: submit visual journal
Class 7 (March 4) FIELDTRIP: Redpath Museum, McGill University campus (2-4$ [amount T.B.A.] donation to the museum required)
HOMEWORK: fieldtrip assignment
Class 8 (March 11)
COLOUR
LECTURE: colour harmonies, symbolic colour, colour in photography and painting
HOMEWORK: make a colour wheel, colour exercises
No classes – study break (March 17 to 21)
Class 9 (March 25)
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| Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1483 - 1485 | Rineke Dijkstra, Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26 1992 |
COLOUR, part 2
LECTURE: assignment #3 (.pdf): photography and painting (slide presentation)
Exercise: Colour narratives
Class 10 (April 1)
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Sophie Calle, The Hotel, Room 47 1981 |
DISCUSSION OF NARRATIVE (slides)
LECTURE: photo essays, review work in progress
HOMEWORK: prepare final version of project #3
Class 11 (April 8)
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PAINTING ASSIGNMENT DUE (prints) CRITIQUE
HOMEWORK: brainstorming/research in visual journal
Class 12 (April 15)
FIELDTRIP
LECTURE: introduction to project #4
HOMEWORK: continue with project
Class 13 (April 22)
EXPLORATION & NARRATIVE
LECTURE: analyze narrative in serial photography
HOMEWORK: continue with assigned project & visual journal
Class 14 (April 29)
EXPLORATION & NARRATIVE
LECTURE: review images
HOMEWORK: continue with project, submit visual journal
Class 15 (May 6) PRESENTATIONS
(May 14, 2014 at 3:00 pm last time to receive all projects)