COMM 219 - Advanced SLR Black and White Photography

3 Credits: (2 lecture, 2 lab)

Course Description
This course is designed to increase photographic capabilities, darkroom skills, and working knowledge of the different media available to the photographer. Students will have the opportunity to work in a minimum of three different films and three different papers on a minimum of three projects.

Note Access to a 35 mm SLR manual over-ride camera is required.

Prerequisite COMM 114.

A. Use a minimum of three different types of Black & White film (beyond the T-Max film used in COMM 114). 

B. Use a minimum of three different types of Black & White paper (beyond the RC paper used in COMM 114). 

C. Plan and create a major project using specific materials, composition and manipulation strategies. 

D. Apply fine control to negative processing and photographic printing. 

E. Identify classic photographic styles that influence photography. 

Content
A. Developing several types of films 

B. Requirements for printing on different papers 

C. Photographic manipulation 

D. Printing and processing techniques 

E. Analysis of the work of famous photographers 

Student Evaluation
Student evaluation will be based on quizzes, writing assignments, and photography portfolio. Bibliography
Busselle, Michael. Master Photography: Take and Make Perfect Pictures. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978. 

Capa, Robert. Robert Capa: Photographs. New York: Knopf, 1985. 

Cartier-Bresson, Henri. World of Henri Cartier Bresson. New York: Viking, 1968. 

Crouch, Stanley. One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris. New York: Abrams, 2002. 

Finn, David. How to Look at Everything. New York: Abrams, 2000. 

Geddes, Anne. Down in the Garden. San Rafael: Cedco, 1996. 

Schwarz, Ted. McGraw-Hill’s Handbook for Professional Photographers. New York: McGraw, 1984. 

Smith, W. Eugene. W. Eugene Smith, His Photographs and Notes. New York: Aperture, 1969. 

Uelsmann, Jerry. Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis. Gainsville: UP of Florida, 1992.