Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century

INTRODUCTION

 

The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.

László Moholy-Nagy¹

 

 

I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY. And I love teaching. This book arises out of my love for both, and a desire to create a resource for my colleagues in photographic education. This book is a snapshot of photographic education in the first decade of the twenty-first century, based on interviews with 47 photo educators in six countries: China, South Africa, Finland, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain. I chose the educators from my personal network developed from more than 20 years teaching and 14 years as Chair of the Photography department at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. I sought to include ...