A Common Language: The Photo-Text Book
This four-week course will explore the various ways that photography and text interact in the book form. Meeting virtually for several hours each week, sessions will consist of creative exercises, group reading discussions, brief lectures, and presentations of both historically relevant and contemporary book publications. Students will be asked to work with both found materials and their own photographic work, culminating in the formation of an original photo-text project. Through a mixture of relevant theory and practical application, we will navigate the complex territory between these two distinct languages—image and word—and develop new strategies for how they can be integrated.
This four-week course will explore the various ways that photography and text interact in the book form. Meeting virtually for several hours each week, sessions will consist of creative exercises, group reading discussions, brief lectures, and presentations of both historically relevant and contemporary book publications. Students will be asked to work with both found materials and their own photographic work, culminating in the formation of an original photo-text project. Through a mixture of relevant theory and practical application, we will navigate the complex territory between these two distinct languages—image and word—and develop new strategies for how they can be integrated.
This four-week course will explore the various ways that photography and text interact in the book form. Meeting virtually for several hours each week, sessions will consist of creative exercises, group reading discussions, brief lectures, and presentations of both historically relevant and contemporary book publications. Students will be asked to work with both found materials and their own photographic work, culminating in the formation of an original photo-text project. Through a mixture of relevant theory and practical application, we will navigate the complex territory between these two distinct languages—image and word—and develop new strategies for how they can be integrated.