ARTS 221 - Antique Photographic Processes

FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2011 and alternate years

Not open to students with credit for courses in alternative photographic processes.Prerequisite: ARTS 120. An exploration of 19th-century photographic processes, learned through demonstration and intensive hands-on lab sessions. Processes covered include cyanotype, salt, Van Dyke brown, wet plate collodion, kallitype, and platinum/palladium printing. Students learn how to make enlarged digital negatives for contact printing from photographs that originate in either film or digital formats. In addition to technique, students learn the historical background of each process and view images from both 19th-century and contemporary photographers, in order to gain an understanding of the context of the process within the history of photography. The course concludes with a group exhibition of the work created. Bowden.