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Photography & Film Development in Paris
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This Course is Available through these Programs:
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Foundations in Studio Art
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French Language & Liberal Arts
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International Business
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International Internship
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Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Academic Institution: CEA GlobalCampus: Paris
Location: Paris, FrancePrimary Subject Area: Photography
Level(s): 300
UNH Course Code: PHT302
Instruction in: English
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Fee: $150.00
- This course requires a $150 lab fee for use of the darkroom facilities.
Prerequisites: None. But you must provide your own 35mm SLR camera.
Required Supplies: Students must provide their own manually adjustable 35mm SLR manual camera and 50 mm or equivalent lens (also a zoom including the 50 mm) and film and paper supplies. To save money, students should buy at least 20 rolls (36 shorts each) of black and white film in the United States before arriving in France. Students are also expected to provide their own additional supplies (approximately $150) from a supply list that the instructor will supply on the first day of class.
Description
This course is devoted to exploring the urban and cultural landscape of Paris through the technical and artistic medium of photography. You will learn how the camera can be used as a unique and discerning tool of documentary record, cross-cultural understanding, artistic expression and self-discovery. To this end, you will acquire the basic and critical photographic skills that will enable you to pursue more creative and independent work, becoming practiced in the technical aspects of camera types, black-&-white film, the camera lens and shutter, film exposure, darkroom developing and printing, and the physics of lighting and optics. And towards more purely artistic ambitions, you will learn to think about composition, mood, and subject when setting up and shooting pictures in the City of Light. The purpose of the course is to help you develop an understanding of, and a practical ability to apply, the basic principles of technique and composition through photography. Concurrently, this course gives you an opportunity to record specific aspects of the culturally rich and fascinating city of Paris in a personal and reflective way.
Indeed, the city of Paris has an unrivaled and inspired heritage of photographic inventiveness and aesthetic creativity which has been directed to these very purposes. Photographers such as Daguerre, Nadar, Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Doisneau, to name just a few, evoke moving scenes of beauty and timelessness in this historical urban setting. The work of these photographers, created in Paris and reproduced on countless postcards, posters and albums all around the world will figure prominently as part of the photographic inspiration that touches most anyone holding a camera in the streets of Paris today.
Within this tradition therefore, this class has been designed to familiarize you with the basic technical, aesthetic and thematic concerns of photography while using Paris, the birthplace of the medium itself, as the perfect backdrop. Straight photography, with an emphasis on self expression and the development of a personal vision, will serve as the basis for much of your work. Through visual lectures, museum excursions and film screenings, you will gain exposure to a wide variety of international photographic work, thus providing you with a rich and varied visual vocabulary. Shooting on location throughout this inspirational city will give you hands-on technical experience in conjunction with individual attention and guidance from the instructor. Class critiques of ongoing work will instruct you how to read and edit your photographic portfolios as well of those of your peers. Such open forums foster critical and analytical thinking while cultivating a vision of your own. At the end of the semester, your more creative work will be included in an exhibition that you will help plan, organize and execute.
This class requires a traditional SLR camera with manual functions and is open to students with any level of photographic experience. Beginners will master the basics of camera usage, film development, and black and white printing. Advanced students will be encouraged to expand their personal photographic vision and technical skills. And in all of the requirements of this course, you will be encouraged to take full artistic advantage of the experience of living and working in Paris.
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