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Week 22 Course Update

Monday, March 1, 2010

Surprise Surprise, another short week this past week. Snow knocked out Tuesday’s History of the Book class.
In Monday’s Digital Imaging class we talked about skin tones. We were advised to work in CMYK and not RGB in the info palette for skin tones so that the info palette would display as percentages and not on [...]

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Week 21 Course Update

Friday, February 19, 2010

Time for another week in review…
Digital Imaging: This week’s class was a lab class. We spent the time practicing using all the tools so far: pen, quick masks, channel masks. We were also told our next assignment. We have to take a photograph shot in daylight and make it look like it was taken at [...]

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Week 20 Course Update

Monday, February 15, 2010

A short school week this past week on account of the snow day we had on wednesday.
Monday in digital imaging I was introduced to the pen tool. I had never used it before as it had always intimidated me. Turns out it’s actually really, really useful and isn’t too scary once you get the hang [...]

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Week 19 Course Update

Friday, February 5, 2010

3 Weeks in, 3 weeks to Spring Break. Daytona Beach? Cancun? Lake Havasu? Decisions, Decisions…
I still have a few weeks to decide. In the meantime…
This week in digital imaging, we worked with channel masks. It seems like a helpful little way of working. It’s becoming clear there are lots of different ways to get an [...]

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Week 18 Course Update

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Week 18 is now just a fading memory, but, thanks to this blog, it’s a memory I’ll be able to recall down the road.
In digital imaging we worked more with quick masks. It is a really useful tool to know how to use and even more useful if you have a lot of patience. It [...]

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Weekend Readings (Week 17)

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Things I’m reading this weekend:
For History of Photo Books:
Chapter 4 + 5 from Badger and Parr, The Photo Book, A History. Vol 1. Phaidon, 2004
From Classic Essays on Photography, A. Trachtenberg, ed., Leete’s Island Books, New Haven, 1980:
Paul Strand, Photography and the New God
Walker Evans, The Reappearance of Photography
Walter Benjamin, A Short History of Photography
and finally:
Szarkowski, John, The [...]

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Week 17 Course Update

Friday, January 22, 2010

A short week this week. Monday was MLK Day, so no crit or digital imaging.
Tuesday: History of the Book this week focused on the early history of the photo book from Talbot’s book The Pencil of Nature and Anna Atkins’ beautiful publication Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (which I guess isn’t really considered a [...]

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Week 16: Spring 2010 Semester Begins

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Don’t forget about Appreciate A Photographer Week!
After a nice little vacation, school is back. The first week of the semester is done. I’ve decided to make a few little changes to the blog. Rather than update for each class every week, I’m just going to focus on the highlights.
A quick reminder of what I’m taking [...]

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Week 14 Course Update: Africa

Friday, December 11, 2009

The last week of the semester is here. While most class time is now devoted to working on and presenting essays and final projects, Past Tense, Present Tense was packed solid with good photography this week. The subject was Africa, presented by guest lecturer Kunbi Oni. It had never really occurred to me just how [...]

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Week 13 Course Update: Stuff, Other Stuff, Porn

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Digital Imaging: We continued working on our final projects in class.
Critical Theory: Cancelled but for next week, we have to read:
Jean Baudrillard’s essay “The Conspiracy of Art”
“Baudrillard and some cultural practices” from An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism by Madan Sarup
Baudrillard “New York” excerpt from America.
Lighting: Next week we have to bring in a [...]

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