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ARTS 221 - Antique Photographic Processes


FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 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 on campus include cyanotype printing and toning, Van Dyke brown, 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 will 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 and current trends in the medium. Additionally, the third week of the Spring 2013 class is spent in New York City, which includes a two-day, wet-plate collodion workshop, in which we use large-format cameras and antique lenses to learn the ambrotype, tintype, and glass plate negative processes. A third class day in New York is spent visiting museums and galleries. Bowden.





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