This course explores the different ways in which a story can be told through the medium of photography. Through collaborative and personal lens-based projects students will consider a range of storytelling practices from linear to nonlinear and fiction versus nonfiction. Issues related to photography and narrative will also be addressed, including myth and fantasy, archetypes and typologies and the constructed image as well as documentary photographic essays and the artist book. Materials will be presented through lectures, readings, technical demonstrations, guest artists, group discussions, and visits to area museums and archives. Student work will be discussed in formal critiques and informal work shares.

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