60-465 Advanced DP3: Artists Make Pictures - Open Photography
10 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Artists Make Pictures is an open photography course structured to support students of all disciplines who want to refine their relationship to the camera and develop a substantial photographic project engaging in a rigorous conversation and examination of contemporary photography in the expanded field. Artists Make Pictures will use the case study model to slow down and closely consider the writing and photographic work of a range of contemporary artists such as AnMy L, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Zoe Leonard, Shannon Ebner, Leslie Hewitt, Liz Deschenes, Walid Raad, Moyra Davey and others. We will look specifically at artists whose use of the camera is embedded in a deeper discourse of sociality, politics, spirituality, conceptualism, abstraction, technology and literature as we traverse a range of photographic practices. The work of photography does not lie in the fraction of time delineated by the camera exposure but in the careful research, planning and attention to the parameters that come to frame a larger project. This course is for the dedicated, independent and hard working student who wants to work closely with the professor while developing a substantial project. Participation in this course grants students access to the course technology kit for the duration of the semester, including a professional DSLR camera with two lenses and a tripod. The use of this camera kit will be integrated into weekly activity during in class workshops and will play a critical role in how you develop your relationship to the camera.
Prerequisites: none listed
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