ARTS 221 - Antique Photographic Processes

FDR: HA
Credits: 3

This class serves as an introductory exploration of alternative image-making. This class emphasizes the intersection between that 19th-century photographic processes and contemporary digital image-making, and explores each process in its historical context. Individual processes are learned through studio demonstration and intensive hands-on lab sessions. Processes covered in this course include cyanotype and toning, Van Dyke, anthotype, lumen printing, and platinum and palladium printing from digital imagery and photograms. Students learn how to make enlarged digital negatives for contact printing from photographs that originate in digital formats. In addition to technique, students learn the historical background of each process, as well as contemporary trends and artists working with these methods. Phillips.