The Photo Lens As Your Guide
To study photography in New York City is to be at the center of a metropolis where the photo lens becomes your insight into a visual experience, including New York neighborhoods such as the fashion, financial, and meat-packing districts, galleries and museums; individuals; urban life; nightlife; theater; and Central Park.
The Department of Photography & Imaging is centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Summer courses, offered in both traditional and new technologies in image-making and writing about the image, are taught by a faculty of renowned artists and working professionals. Students may register for undergraduate or graduate credit.
Summer 2010 Selected Course Offerings:
Digital Tools for Documentary Practice
H82.1270 (UG)/H82.2270 (G) (2 points)
This course will explore a variety of digital
media tools that are useful for a documentary photographer. The class will
explore issues relating to the digital camera, as well as to image capture,
preservation, presentation and transmission. Lighting, audio interviewing, and
the production of short videos will also be covered at a basic level. Students
work on several small assignments to experiment with software and hardware, and
will have the opportunity to complete a small project of their own. This course
is intended to give students a fundamental understanding of the efficiencies
and possibilities of the digital realm. This class is specifically intended for
students enrolled in Photography and Human Rights 1, but is open to others as
well.
This course is part of the Photography & Imaging and Magnum Foundation Program in Photography & Human Rights. These classes may be taken individually or as a four-course suite.
Lighting and Production Techniques for Fashion and PortraitureH82.1013 (UG)/H82.2013 (G) (4 points)
This
class teaches lighting as a series of the most common lighting problems
encountered in professional photography and cinematography. The course philosophy is that the most
complex and difficult lighting problems are really just combinations of small,
easily resolved, problems. Starting with basic three-point lighting for
portraiture using simple continuous source lighting, the course will progress
quickly to extremely complex set ups using electronic flash as well as lighting
for the new generation of hybrid dslr’s
(video/still camera) as it moves through multiple environments.Subjects
covered include:Lighting for portraits, still life, fashion,
interiors, documentary, and exterior location lighting using battery powered
flash. More
Photography I
H82.1001 (UG)/H82.2001 (G) 4 points
A basic black-and-white photography course, designed for those with
little or no experience in photography. Emphasis is placed on the
application of techniques in terms of personal expression. The course
comprises technical lectures, laboratory demonstrations, and slide
lectures of historic and contemporary photography, and critiques of
student work. Approximately 10 hours of laboratory work is done weekly
in addition to scheduled class time. Upon completion of the course, a
student can expect to have a thorough understanding of the basics of
black-and-white photography. This includes proper and consistent
exposure, development, and printing. Students are required to have a 35
mm camera with a meter and manual exposure control.
Additional Summer Photography and Imaging Courses
