Documentary Photography AS 371.303 Phyllis Berger [email protected] Home 410-467-8525 Cell 410-207-5862
In this course, we will explore different genres of documentary photography including: the fine art document, photojournalism, social documentary photography, the photo essay and photography of propaganda. Students will work on a semester-long photo-documentary project on a subject of their choice. Camera experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite. Students will be loaned a digital SLR for the semester.
Course Objectives Students will: Begin to think critically about images View and discuss the work of documentary photographers Gain proficiency in the use of the camera Learn to connect images sequentially Create a semester long documentary project
Grading 30% Students must be active participants in all classroom activities: joining in discussion of images, and completing assignments for critique on time. 60% Final project
Attendance You must be on time for all classes. Three late classes count as a missed class. Two missed classes will lower your grade by one letter. Three missed classes result in an F. Class 1 Lecture: What is Documentary Photography? Discussion on various forms this genre takes Introduction to Feldman Theory Camera Operation
Reading Assignment Horenstein Digital Photography: A Basic Manual Practice using your cameras see assignment sheet on Blackboard Upload images to Flickr See data sheet on Blackboard
Class 2 Field practice: Baltimore Street Car Museum Shoot Raw plus jpeg
Assignment Choose an image from Digital Journalist link on Blackboard Upload to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/and leave a comment (at least a paragraph) on what intrigues you about photograph. Log in Yahoo ID jhudocumentary Password 371158
Class 3 Camera Raw Tutorial Discussion of Flickr uploads
Lecture: Street Photography Roy DeCARAVA Eugene Atget Robert Doisneau Lee Friedlander Diane Arbus Cartier Bresson
Assignment Street Photograph See assignment sheet on Blackboard Due Class 5
Class 4 Fieldtrip Fells Point Shoot raw
Write a semester long project proposal due class 6 You should pick a project that would lend itself to a photographic essay on a subject that truly interests you. We will have critiques of your work as we progress through the semester to help with technical and content issues. Class 5 Photoshop Tutorial and Lab
Reading for Class six We will work on Fells Point photos http://shelby-lee-adams-essay.blogspot.com/ http://shelby-lee-adams-napier.blogspot.com/
Begin work in class on semester project
Class 6 Movie and Discussion “True Meaning of Pictures” Lab
Reading for class 7
“Impossible to Forget” on electronic reserve
Short crit
Discussion of project proposals
Class 7 Fieldtrip John Brown Museum Liberty Ship
Class 8 LAB ½ CLASS Movie and Discussion War photographer Lecture: Photographer as Witness James Nachtwey Michael Kenna
Upload images from your semester project to flickr You can post them under your set
Lab Class 9
Critique: Bring images on a portable drive
Class 10 Reading “The Harvest Gypsies” PDF on Blackboard
Lecture: Farm Security Association Discussion: Issues of Photographic Integrity
Dorothea Lange Russell Lee Arthur Rothstein Propaganda photos from Soviet Union Lab Critique
Class Lab
Class 12 Final Critique