Are you ready to move from “how-to” photography classes to “why-to” projects? In this course, you’ll present your world in your own photographic language. By exploring photographic history seen through the lenses of famous and not-so-well-known photographers, you’ll learn to apply key notions of light, space, time, symbolism, and metaphor to your own work. In each class session, you’ll set your own assignment or topic and produce a photographic short story or essay to share with fellow class members in a non-judgmental, positive environment.
Our biweekly meetings will include readings and discussions from “Tarnished Silver,” essays by A.D. Coleman. You will be asked to share only new work for discussion and together we’ll learn to “read” each other’s photographic language. No particular camera or technology is suggested, but work must be shown as prints, produced however you choose (darkroom, computer printer, one-hour convenience store). They can be any size, assembled, drawn on, or cut and pasted together, in whatever manner you choose to make your statement. The book and a three-ring binder of lecture notes and readings are included in the course fee.
Instructor: Martin Fowler began his study of photography at the University of Minnesota, and over time studied with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Morley Baer, and others. After a career in advertising, he retired to work on his graduate studies in art history with a concentration
in photography, earning his MFA from Penn State. He has taught at number colleges and universities in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
6 Thursdays (biweekly), Sep 24 - Dec 3, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Room: L 3100
Register online at www.minneapolis.edu/continuinged or call 612.659.6509
