Week 15 / Dec. 2 and Dec. 4

In-class work activity (final projects)

Final Critique / Monday, Dec. 9 from 6-8pm

Final Portfolios of 10-20 prints due with project statements

Week 14 / Nov. 25

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Week 13 / Nov. 18 and Nov. 20

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Week 12 / Nov. 11 and Nov. 13

No class on Monday, Nov. 11 / University Closed / Veteran's Day

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Week 11 / Nov. 4 and Nov. 6

Group critique on Monday, Nov. 4

In-class activity: research and lab time

Week 10 / Oct. 28 and Oct. 30

Lecture and discussion: Physical and Material

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Week 9 / Oct. 21 and Oct. 23

Lecture and discussion: Revived and Remade

Film screening: Art in the Twenty-First Century / Cindy Sherman

In-class work activity: lab time 

Week 8 / Oct. 16

Film screening: Manufactured Landscapes

Reading: Chapter 7: “Revived and Remade”

Week 7 / Oct. 7 and Oct. 9

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Midterm critique on Wednesday, Oct. 9 - approximately 5 -10 prints with typed one-page project statement draft

Week 6 / Sept. 30 and Oct. 2

Lecture and discussion: Intimacy, Family, Community and Subculture 

Film Screening: Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders 

Reading: Chapter 6: “Moments in History” 

Student presentations on contemporary photographers

Week 5 / Sept. 23 and Sept. 25

Lecture and discussion: Perception and the Everyday

In-class work activity: research and lab time

Reading: Chapter 5, 'Intimate Life'

Artist Affinities research and writing assignment:

Research another artist who informs and inspires your current project.  Write a one-page paper including biographical information and a summary/analysis of the artist's work, with emphasis on a specific body or bodies of work that relate(s) to your own work. Highlight examples and write concrete descriptions of and commentary about individual images. Prepare a slide presentation of approximately 20 images.  You can create a PowerPoint presentation or create a folder of images which we can view in Bridge's slide show.  Ideal image size for presentation is 768x1024px, but images can be slightly smaller or larger.  If you are searching for images on the the Web, please search for LARGE images.  You can also photograph or scan images from books for better results. Your presentation can include video under 10 min. but must also include still images. You will be presenting your paper and slide show on Wednesday, Oct. 2.  Presentations will be approximately 20min.

Week 4 / Sept. 16 and Sept. 18

Lecture and discussion: The Deadpan

Project proposals and materials' requests due on Monday, Sept. 16

Individual meetings to discuss proposals

In-class work activity: lab time

Assigned Reading: Chapter 4, 'Something and Nothing'

Week 3 / Sept. 9 and Sept. 11

Lecture and discussion: Storytelling and Staging

Film screening: Gregory Crewdson, Brief Encounters

In-class work activity: discuss and develop project proposals

Reading: Chapter 3, 'The Deadpan" 

Week 2 / Sept. 4

Lecture and discussion: Strategies, Happenings and Performance

Screening: Art Safari / Sophie Calle

Student presentations on influential photographers' websites

Reading: Chapter 2, "Once Upon a Time"

Week 1 / Aug. 26 and Aug. 28

Welcome back to the fall semester and Practicing Photography. In our first class, we will review the syllabi, make student introductions, and read essays. 

Readings: Introduction and Chapter 1, “If This is Art” and “Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult", Paul Graham

Required text: The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art), Charlotte Cotton, 3rd Edition

available at ETSU bookstore or online

Bring 10 examples of previous project to second class to introduce your work to the class and be prepared to discuss project ideas and artist influences for this semester.