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One Year Photography Program Overview
One-Year Photography students at NYFA will be introduced to the tools and develop the skills necessary for researching, composing, and capturing Digital Photographic Projects. Students are encouraged to be creative but are also taught to think of each project as a concise statement of artistic, documentary, and/or journalistic intent.
Skills learned as a result of successful completion of this program include:
- The ability to work independently in a high-pressure creative environment and
- An in-depth knowledge of digital SLR cameras, lighting, and printing
- The research a documentary subject or news story and visualize it through photography
- Mastery of Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite
- Knowledge of the history of photography
- Knowledge of aesthetic theory of photography and experience with practical application of the same
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STUDIO PRACTICE 1
(6 SEMESTER CREDIT UNITS) |
HISTORY & THEORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY 1
(3 SEMESTER CREDIT UNITS) |
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This course is an introduction to the operation and use of digital cameras, lights, and digital printing technology. Subjects include aperture, shutter speed, focal length, contrast, diffusion, filters, and photo imaging and printing using Photoshop Creative Suite. Through a series of lectures, seminars, and studio workshops, basic principles of Black and White and Color photography, techniques including use of f-stops, depth-of-field, and three-point lighting, are covered. Beginning with a technical and applied exploration of Black & White image-making, followed by the introduction of the wealth of aesthetic tools made available through the use of color, students will learn to both expand and control the expressive quality of the photographic print.
Prerequisite: None
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This course is a survey of the development of photography from its 19th Century origins to the mid 20th Century. This history includes technological, artistic, social, and journalistic fields of the medium.
Prerequisite: None
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FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY 1
(3 SEMESTER CREDIT UNITS) |
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOJOURNALISM 1
(3 SEMESTER CREDIT UNITS) |
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This course is an exploration of photography as a creative art form. It examines the techniques and methodology of master practitioners including Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Sally Mann, and Robert Mapplethorpe among others as touchstones for students' own work. Students create and present work for critique on a weekly basis throughout the semester.
Prerequisite: None
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The course is an exploration of photography as it applies to journalism and social commentary. The seminal work of photographers including Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, Brassai, Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, and Roman Vishniac among others will inform provide a context for students' own. Subjects include journalism ethics and standards as well as first amendment rights and legal issues pertaining to both photojournalism and documentary photography. Black and White and Color photography will be utilized as students create and present work for critique on a weekly basis throughout the semester.
Prerequisite: None
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STUDIO PRACTICE 2
(6 SEMESTER CREDIT UNITS) |
HISTORY & THEORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2
(3 SEMESTER CREDIT UNITS) |
Intermediate and advanced use of digital cameras, lights, digital printing and technology. Subjects include full spectrum photography (including ifra-red and ultra-violet), composite imaging, advanced photo-editing, and printing using Photoshop Creative Suite. Through a series of lectures, seminars, and studio workshops, this course will explore the many creative advantages to digital processing, augmentation, color correction, photographic effects, and photo finishing. Instruction in cropping, toning and printing teaches students to enhance even the most subtle elements of their images.
Prerequisite: Studio Practice 1
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A continuation of the study of the development of photography from the mid 20th Century to present, and beyond. This development is considered in relation to technology, art, and popular culture; as well as its impact as a socio-political form and its use in the field of journalism.
Prerequisite:
History and Theory of Photography 1
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FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY 2
(3 SEMESTER CREDIT UNITS) |
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOJOURNALISM 2
(3 SEMESTER CREDIT UNITS) |
This course is continues the exploration of photography as a creative art form. Advanced lighting and digital processing techniques are applied to students' weekly work. Each student creates an art photography portfolio for exhibition at the end of the first year.
Prerequisite: Fine Art Photography 1
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Research, investigation, and storytelling methodologies are taught and employed by students as they pursue news stories and documentary subjects. New Media applications of non-fiction photography are examined as students post their work to a class website.
Prerequisite:
Documentary & Photojournalism 1
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