AVCS15
Photographing the Landscape
Subject code
AVC
Course Number
S15
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
E. Morris
Course Long Title
Photographing the Landscape
Cross Listed Courses
Description
The course provides a context for studying and analyzing images of the landscape by viewing and discussing historic and contemporary landscape photographs. Questions considered include the role of the sublime in current landscape photography, beauty as a strategy for persuasion, perceptions of "natural" versus "artificial," and contemporary approaches in trying to affect environmental change. Students explore the depiction of the landscape by producing their own work, using "pinhole," black-and-white film, or digital photography. There is a laboratory fee. Recommended background: AVC 219.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Creative Process and Production [CP]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
GEC This Course Belongs To
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