Advanced Photographic Projects: Fabulations
AFVS 147
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Description
This course is designed to foster an independent lens-based practice that is an extension of your own interests. The framework of this course will be an analysis of contemporary photographic practices. This will help you find strategies—conceptual and technical—to make work that unlocks your ideas. We will examine social and historic assumptions regarding photography that arose on the American East Coast and on the West Coast 1960s and 1970s as two influential and varied Documentary traditions. We will examine global technical advances in photography that propelled photography to compete with painting in the global art market in the1980s and 1990s by examining conceptual and technical developments coming out of the German Düsseldorf School of Photography and out of Yale University School of Art during the same time period. This class will ask you to experiment with various photographic strategies to expand your conceptual understanding of the potential of the medium. Your exploration will be supported by three group critiques of your ongoing project. The final form of your project—artist book, installation, projections, photographs, etc.— should arise from and support the conceptual underpinnings of your work. The class is organized around slide lectures, readings, class discussions, visits to exhibitions at museums and galleries, group critiques and individual meetings with the instructor.
Course Notes
Sunday and Tuesday Carpenter Center Digital Processes Lab 7:00-9:00 PM (dates TBD on course calendar)
Class Notes
SPRING 2026: Please consult the course web site before sending a petition to my.harvard.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
