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Post-Conference Issue Spring 1984 22.1 - Columbia Master of Arts: Photography Applications are being accepted for the Fall 1984term of study toward a College Master of Arts in Photography at Columbia College Chicago. The Columbia program emphasizes aesthetic and expressive develop ment; technical competence and versatility; an analytical, critical and Chicago historical knowledge of the medium and its relation to the arts. Struc tured advance courses are complemented by graduate seminars and independent studies under the superivison of the graduate faculty. Graduate faculty members: Columbia College encourages ma ture candidates and returning stu John Mulvany, Chairman Brian Katz dents with undergraduate or gradu David Avison Steven Klindt ate degrees in any discipline to ap Alan Cohen Lynn Sloan-Theodore i ply. CONTACT: Graduate Division, Jan Zita Grover Peter Thompson Columbia College, 600 South Michi gan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois The graduate faculty is supplemented by over thirty full and part-time 60605-1996. Telephone: 312/663-1600 members of the College's photography faculty and visiting artists. Columbia College has excellent facilities for black and white, color, Full tuition fellowship available for graphic-related techniques, mural painting and laboratories for the specially selected applicants with technology-based generative systems program, Xerography and the outstanding qualifications. For infor commercial studio program as well as the exhibit and study program , mation contact John Mulvany. the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography. Master of Arts: Photography/Gallery Management Columbia College offers a program of courses leading to a Master of Arts in Photography degree with a special emphasis on Gallery Management. The Gallery Management program uses as its prime resource the Colum bia College Galleries and the Col lege's collection of contemporary American photography. The Galle ries mount 30 exhibits each year and Columbia College admits stu ] dents without regard to race , col students in the program will work or, sex, religion, physical handi closely in the production of these ex cap and national or ethnic origin hibits. The Gallery Management pro gr am is designed to prepare students for careers as curators, registrars, preparators, gallery di rectors and art center directors. Steven Klindt, the Director of the Co lumbia College Galleries and the Jerry N. Uelsmann Chicago Center for Contemporary untitled © 1968 Photography of Columbia College 1982 230 will be the program's principal facul ty member. Klindt has been Director on extended loan to the Colum bia College Collection from of the Galleries since 1979 and has Sonia and Ted Bloch edited four major catalogs published by the Galleries. "I've never done it that uray before. -Let Ille check Upton." Upton and Upton's PHOTOGRAPHY is the one book your students keep long after they've left the classroom. Because they go back to it again and again, with each new lens, filter, and technique. They count on its single topic, two-page spreads, its lavish, high-quality visuals, its clear, step-by step instructions, and the most comprehensive, up-to-date technical information available. Upton and Upton's PHOTOGRAPHY has always been the one photography book that's really used. LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY 34 Beacon Street• Boston, Massachusetts 02106 Society For Photographic Education Past National Chairpersons The Society for Photgraphic Education is a not-for William Parker profit educational corporation which through its Michael Simon programs and publications seeks to promote high James Alinder standards of photography and photgraphic educa Peter C . Bunnel tion. Membership dues in the Society are $40 per Robert Forth year; for membership information write Society for Bernard Freemesser Photographic Education, P.O. Box 1651 FDR Post Robert Heinecken Office , New York, NY 10150. Nathan Lyons Board of Directors Regional Chairpersons Martha Strawn, Chairperson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Mid Atlantic: Patty Carroll, Vice-Chairperson Tom Beck Andy Grundberg, Secretary University of MD Library Helmmo Kindermann, Treasurer 5401 Wilkens Ave. Eileen Berger Baltimore, MD 21228 Roger Bruce Midwest: A.O. Coleman Jerry Dell Keith Davis 454 Grandview Rd . 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Grover Tom Lamb Box 365 Leadville, CO 80461 Southeast: T Dan Biferie DBCC Gallery of Fine Arts Daytona Beach Community College P.O.Boxllll Daytona Beach , FL 32015 West Kenda North Program in Art Cover University of California Riverside, CA 92521 Connie Hatch from Desublimination of Romance 2 Post-Conference Issue Spring 1984 22.1 Contents New Documentary 5 The Map Is not the Territory James Hugunin 16 Fighting for Jobs Judith Crawley 18 Cultures In Contention: The Docklands Community Poster Project Diane Neumaier 20 The Way We Live Now: Beyond Social Documentary Abigail Solomon-Godeau Teaching Photography 24 Critiquing Methods for Teaching Photo I Monte Gerlach New History 26 Art, Information, and Evidence: Early Landscape Photographs of the Yosemite Region Paul Hickman 30 Hollywoodland: The Hollywood Photographers' Archive David Fahey, Linda Rich 32 Book Reviews 35 Letter to the Editor EXPOSURE is the quarterly journal of the Society Membership: for Photographic Education , and is a benefit of $40 membership dues for calendar year 1984 SPE membership. The journal reflects the Society 's should be sent to Society for Photographic Educa concerns , but opinions expressed herein are not tion, P.O. Box 1651, FDR Post Office, New necessarily endorsed by the SPE. York, NY 10150. Supported in part by a grant from the National Institutional Subscription: Endowment for the Arts , a federal agency. Institutional subscription rate for schools and libraries is $25 yearly ($30 outside USA) : write Advertising: Society for Photographic Education, P.O. Box Advertising inquiries should be addressed to 1651, FDR Post Office, New York , NY 10150, or Phyllis Galembo, Advertising Director, Exposure , order through a major subscription agency. P.O. Box 694, New York, NY 1001 I. (212) 989- 0198 . Submissions: Editorial contributions and letters should be Entered as 2nd class postage, addressed to EXPOSURE, P.O. Box 2592, Ann Chicago, II. Arbor, MI 48106 . 3 TheMa~ When I was asked by Jack Higbee last tracks, each consisting of multiple presenta Introduction spring to manage the program at the 1984 tions, that addressed the issue of "documen National Conference, I sat down and care tary". Similar approaches were needed, but fully thought about all the regional and could not be developed, with other topics.) national conferences I had attended in the The bare facts are these: the conference was last eight years. The single most glaring attended by over 700 people, who had the inadequacy that I perceived was the absence opportunity to attend fifty-nine individual of any record of the many fine presentations presentations, twelve panel presentations, that occurred at those events. Often papers and view over 35 video tapes. There were later appear in one journal or another, but two international guests (Pedro Meyer from there did not exist a sense of the collective Mexico City and William Klein from Paris), thinking that occurred during those few days and distinguished evening lectures by when people actually came together. Sub Professor Alfred Appel (English, North squently I decided to try and assemble the western University) and Dr. Herbert Schiller best material presented at the 1984 confer (Communications, University of California ence. I wanted this record of the conference at San Diego) . The final evening presentation to be useful for all SPE members, and also by William Klein was the first time he had gathering me, serve as an indication to the field-at-large ever presented a lecture of his work in this world is uniql about the purpose of SPE. country. Iight-sensitiv, The 1984 National This issue of Expo evidential asr Conference was held on the campus of the sure does not fully reflect the diversity and argument fro1 University of California at Riverside . I depth of presentations at the conference. It is has been dubl attempted to design the conference so that my hope, however , that the membership will in an essay b) significant issues would be addressed in find some of these papers interesting , some naive assump more than a cursory fashion. I wished to useful. have individuals from other disciplines visual syntax actively involved in the conference , both as photograph is presentors and an attending audience . I was Mark Johnstone to some privi only partially successful in these endeavors. Program Manager The photogra (For example, I was able to develop several 1984 National Conference evidence in a relies upon it. camera. The I and issues pe' phers call epi declaimed in "social docun grounds the p ledge about ti plishes this bl portrait. The they really ar reproduced i 4 TheMap is not the Territory ta :n Lit JamesHugunin .) as ,m is), Introduction Iler 1ia tion Photography is an information engraving itself was considered truthful, evidence