Book description
An invaluable resource for photography educators, this volume is a survey of photographic education in the first decade of the 21st Century. Drawing upon her 25 years of teaching experience and her professional network, Michelle Bogre spoke with 47 photo educators from all over the world to compile this diverse set of interviews. The themes of these conversations explore:
- Why students should study photography
- The value of a formal photography degree
- Teaching philosophies
- Whether video and multimedia should be an essential part of a photographic curricula
- The challenges of teaching photography today
- Changes in photographic education overall
The second half of the book shares 70 photography assignments of varying level of difficulty from these educators, some paired with examples of how students completed them.
This book will inspire and invigorate any photography educator’s curriculum.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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Chapter 1 Photography Confidential: Educators Speak
- Sama Alshaibi
- David Bate
- Steven Benson
- Sian Bonnell
- Jean Brundrit
- David Campbell
- Jeff Curto
- Barbara DeGenevieve
- Dornith Doherty
- Jim Dow
- Larry Fink
- Joan Fontcuberta
- Allen Frame
- Bill Gaskins
- Chris Gauthiér
- Rafael Goldchain
- Jim Groom
- Charles Harbutt
- Patrick “Pato” Hebert
- Paul Hill
- Matt Johnston
- Svea Josephy
- Susan Kae Grant
- Dennis Keeley
- John Kippin
- Mark Klett
- Bao Kun
- Heike Löwenstein
- Niko Luoma
- Michael Marshall
- Arno Rafael Minkkinen
- Colleen Mullins
- Joyce Neimanas
- vLorie Novak
- Catherine Opie
- Timothy Persons
- Jonathan Shaw
- Stephen Shore
- Steven Skopik
- Amy Stein
- Terry Towery
- Conrad Tracy
- Type A: Adam Ames (AA) and Andrew Bordwin (AB)
- Penelope Umbrico
- Wang Chuan
- John Willis
- Jonathan Worth
- Notes
-
Chapter 2 Assignments Confidential: Educators Share
- Thirty-Six Strangers
- Archive Assignment
- The Art of Political Discourse
- The Artist Statement
- Be a Director
- The Big Picture
- A Blind Jury of Contemporary Photography
- Cliché: Unconventional Beauty
- Control Your Work
- Criticism, Interpretation, and Ambiguity
- Curating: Virtual Exquisite Corpse
- Digital Pinhole
- Edges
- Empowered Portrait
- Ephemeral in Place
- Every Day
- Express Yourself
- Fashion: Constructed Image
- Four Corners
- Full Narrative Outcome
- Grab Bag of Words
- How To Be a Curator
- Is Photography Over?: An Exquisite Corpse
- Landscape and Identity: Place and Random Place
- Light
- Man Ray
- Manifesto
- Mapping
- Measured Space
- Memory
- Narrative Project
- Narrative: Medway Festival
- Newtonian Time and the Time of Leibniz and Kant (Immeasurable and Untravelable)
- Night Dreams, Day Dreams, and Hypnogogic Hallucinations
- Observation
- Obsession and Intuition: Regarding Beauty
- On Turning Ten
- Order and Disorder
- Ordinary Made Extraordinary
- Passions and Obsessions
- PechaKucha/Remix
- The Photographic Cliché
- The Photographic Homage
- The Pivotal Edge
- Political Photo Montage
- Portraiture and Performance
- The Possibilities of Collaboration
- Randomized Subject
- Re-Do
- Restriction and Freedom
- Scavenger Hunt
- See With Your Ears
- Self-Portrait
- Self-Portrait: Signature
- Self-Portraits
- Site: Intervention (The Dart Project)
- Something You Have Never Done Before
- Staging the Self
- Stop and Shoot
- Surreal Portrait
- Tell Me Something Interesting
- Tell Us, Show Us, Express to Us
- Third-Person Talk
- Three-Foot Square
- Time
- Time as a Container
- Untitled Film Still
- Who Am I, Really?
- Who Are You?
- The Year 2072
- Zen and the Art of Archery
- Teaching: Tips, Strategies, Ideas to Ponder
- Finding Out What Students Really Know
- Editing and Selection
- Resources
- Index
Product information
- Title: Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2014
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317693840
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