Week 4 / Feb. 5 and Feb. 7

In-class work activity: scanning, making digital contact sheets and prints

Critique Assignment #1: 6 prints due during second half of class on Wednesday, February 7

Shooting Assignment #2: Photographing the Everyday (2 rolls)

Compelling subject matter surrounds us in our everyday life. In class, we looked at work by Walker Evans, William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Bill Owens, Marc Wise, and Martin Parr, among others. This assignment encourages students to investigate the multiple meanings of the idea of the “everyday” in photography and to develop the aesthetic and technical skills to transform the personal and the ordinary into artwork. Shoot two rolls of film at work, at home, from a window, on a walk in your neighborhood.  How can you turn the ordinary things around you into interesting photographs through your point-of-view?

Bring two processed rolls of film to class on Monday, February 12 for scanning.  Four prints due on Monday, February 19.