The Photo Lens As Your Guide
To study photography in New York City is to be at the center of a metropolis where the photo lens becomes your insight into a visual experience, including neighborhoods and districts (i.e., fashion, financial, meat-packing), galleries and museums, individuals, urban life, nightlife, theater, and Central Park. The Department of Photography & Imaging is centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Summer courses, offered in both traditional and new technologies in image-making and writing about the image, are taught by a faculty of renowned artists and working professionals.
Documentary Strategies for Contemporary Culture, taught by Jamel Shabazz, photographer of urban life, will consider the creative possibilities of documentary strategies in contemporary culture from hip hop to family life.
With an understanding an artist’s creative growth and lifestyle choices are inextricably entwined with his/her financial security, The Business of Art will attempt to demystify the questions and decisions artists face when choosing a profession in the arts.
The Poetics of Witnessing, taught by Peter Lucas, will focus on documentarians whose work combines politics and aesthetics in innovative and radical ways.
Beginning with Sontag's On Photography and Barthes’s Camera Lucida, the course will study several different kinds of visual poetics such as combining documentary material with literature, archival and found images, the photo essay book, the essay film, personal filmmaking, ethnographic film poetics, multi-media installations, photo reportage and cultural memory, visual autobiography, mixed media, public projections. By studying these various artists, students will learn about alternative visual strategies to engage politically challenging themes which in turn open up different spaces for discussion and the potential for change.
Think Summer. Think Tisch.
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