VIS 165Black and White Darkroom
This course will introduce the students to the history of chemical and ocular processes since the late nineteenth century and their impact on image making. Students will learn basic black-and-white darkroom techniques, processing film, proofing, and printing. Course will conclude with a primer in the new photographic hybridity, bringing analog into the digital terrain. Students will be required to create a portfolio of work. Program or materials fees may apply. Two production-course limitation.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “VIS 60. Open to art history and criticism, media, studio, and ICAM majors and photography minors.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (2)
- Visual Arts (Media) (B.A.)
- Visual Arts (Studio) (B.A.)
Courses that list VIS 165 as a prerequisite (13)
- VIS 167 Social Engagement and Photography
- VIS 168 Pictorialism and Constructed Reality
- VIS 169A Photography in Exhibition and Artist Books
- VIS 169B Advanced Photographic Print
- VIS 180A Documentary Evidence and the Construction of Authenticity in Current Media Practices
- VIS 180B Fiction and Allegory in Current Media Practices
- VIS 181 Advanced Sound and Lighting
- VIS 182 Advanced Editing
- VIS 182A Advanced Digital Photography Editing
- VIS 183A Strategies of Self
- VIS 183B Strategies of Alterity
- VIS 184 Advanced Scripting
- VIS 185 Senior Media Projects