60-278 Infinite Rooms: Photography and Installation

10 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Infinite Rooms is an interdisciplinary photography course designed for students of various backgrounds interested in exploring the relationships between place, images, and installation. This course will investigate the methodologies of how a place is documented, constructed, and imagined in photographs. This class will introduce a critical survey of images, films, and texts from artists who work at the intersection of installation and images. Throughout the semester various prompts will introduce different frameworks for thinking about photography and installation, such as the dramatic the psychological and the personal. Students will utilize digital and analog equipment, learn how to use a largeformat view camera, learn studio lighting techniques, develop approaches to working with natural light, and explore methods of printing and presentation.

Prerequisites: none listed

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