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Category Archives: 2010 Spring Courses

Week 29 Course Update – HDR, Photobooks, New York Photo Festival

Week 29 was the quietest week in my first year in the MFA program.
In Digital Imaging, we talked about HDR Images…you know, those weird, gimmicky, plastic looking photos that lots of people post on flickr. I’m not saying I would never use HDR, I’m just not working on anything where the technique would be in [...]

Week 26 Course Update

With 4 weeks left in the academic year, things are heating up at school.
In Digital Imaging, we looked at the images in which we had changed seasons:

Our next assignment is to make a composite image that includes 4 elements that the teacher gave us.
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In History of the Book, we talked about archives, indexes and memory.
Essays [...]

Week 25 Course Update: Smart Objects, Porn and Glass Houses

Week 25 was a quick one.
In Digital Imaging we took a quick look at Smart Objects:

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In History of the Book we had a chat about porn. A special guest, Lorelei Lee sat in and joined the discussion:

Essays we read for class:
“Pornography” by Andrea Dworkin
Master of Taboo: Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki : The PDN Interview
“How to Look at [...]