CCOG for ART 244 Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- ART 244
- Course Title:
- Photo I: Black and White Photography
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 20
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 40
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Solve problems in the art making process using a variety of strategies for making black and white photographic prints, which demonstrate command of introductory level processes, techniques and materials.
- Participate in a critical dialog about ideas and issues in black and white photography using industry terminology and applying self-critiquing skills.
- Understand, interpret, and critically evaluate black and white photographs considering their cultural and historical context in order to initiate a life-long process of studying diverse perspectives of the human experience.
- Express connections to personal experiences though work in the medium of black and white photography with awareness of the standards and practices established by both contemporary and historical artists.
Integrative Learning
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.
General education philosophy statement
The study of Visual Arts is essential to the development of the individual and one’s meaningful participation in society. At the heart of artistic practice is the ability to organize experience and recognize its meaning. The creation of artwork and appreciation of aesthetics is a source of great pleasure and also a valuable means to effective visual communication. Participating in Visual Arts is an important way for individuals to connect to the past and respond to the present with a stronger sense of engagement with culture and society.
Course Activities and Design
Students will engage in studio work during and outside of class time to critically engage with the practical studio application of skills, techniques and concepts in addition to lectures and presentations, demonstrations, critiques, group discussions and activities.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Actively engage in studio work and complete all projects and homework assignments on time
- 欧洲杯决赛竞猜app_欧洲杯足球网-投注|官网 photographic images, prints and projects that are aesthetically and formally challenging and demonstrate the student’s evolution through beginning level ideas and processes.
- Demonstrate sound foundational level photographic technique and safe and efficient studio habits with respect to the communal environment and equipment
- Participate in discussions and critiques. Take an active role and make contributions applying concepts and terms used in the discipline.
- Evaluate both technical approaches and conceptual directions in photographs through comprehensive responses, critique, written assignments, self-reflection, and peer review.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes
- Visual Communication
- Contexual Awareness
Concepts
- Form and Aesthetic considerations
- Content and Meaning
- Process, technique and material choices from chemical to digital
Issues
- Personal Expression through the medium of black and white photography
- Better understand the photographic black and white aesthetic, the specific possibilities and limitations inherent to black and white photography
- Historical knowledge of black and white photography
- Environmental awareness related to health, safety and proper disposal of waste
Skills
- Learn methodologies for designing and completing black and white photographic prints
Strategies for generating ideas
Image generation - Bridging ideas with photographic methods to create images of both formal and conceptual power
Image making:
Manual camera operations
Exposure evaluation and control - metering, zone system and histogram
B&W film exposure and chemical processing
Digital image exposure and control
Essentials of Lighting; principles, design and modification
Digital tools:
Management and organization of files
Basic workflow and editing in industry-standard software
scanning, digitizing images and use of digital negatives
Non destructive editing practices
Post capture editing options - exposure, contrast, density
Layering, masking, use of blending modes and adjustment layers
Printing:
Technical and aesthetic competence in evaluating materials, processes and techniques
Best practices for color management and viewing environments
Basic considerations for printing via a photographic printer
Presentation:
Hand skills, measuring, cutting and working with presentation materials
Selection of appropriate materials and presentation format for aesthetic and conceptual considerations
Digital as well as physical presentation strategies appropriate to intent of work
- Critique and self-reflection strategies for evaluating images and prints
- Studio Safety
Best practices for working with chemicals and in darkroom and digital labs