This mini-course is an introduction to black and white photography through the darkroom. In addition to covering technical skills that include film exposure/development and print enlargement, major emphasis is placed on the language of the photographic medium and how it communicates information. Through shooting exercises, darkroom work, oral presentations and critiques, photography is explored as both a medium of personal expression and as a visual language, the understanding of which is indispensable to communication designers who make and work with images. Extensive shooting and darkroom work, library research. Required for communication design majors. 35mm camera necessary; lab fee.
