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Digital Photography for Non-Photo Majors

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The only photographer shooting color who was included in the 1975 exhibition, The New Topographics, Stephen Shore photographed the banal iconography of America in a detached manner.

See more of Shore's images here: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/shore/shore.html.

Here's a great article on The New Topographics: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/08/new-topographics-photographs-american-landscapes.

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Commercial and portrait photographer, Andreas E.G. Larsson, makes photographs of dancers on and off the dance floor.  He is a Swedish born photographer, currently residing in Los Angeles.

See the dancers here: http://www.andreasphoto.com/gallery/5/dance.

See more portraits and commercial work here: http://www.andreasphoto.com.

... and he's on tumblr here: http://andreaslarssondiary.com.

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Somewhere between an exploration of self-projection and a sociological study, Time for Print, is a project by Brooklyn photographer, Emiliano Granado, which explores basic concepts of "the desire for fame, beauty, and exhibitionism in today's internet age".

You can see TFP here: http://www.projecttfp.com/.

Check out more of his work here: http://www.emilianogranado.com/.

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Chicago photographer, Brian Sorg, has been photographing Davey over the last 6 years.  Check out this ongoing project on his website: http://briansorgfoto.com.

You can also follow him on tumblr: http://deepspacesorg.tumblr.com/.

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Shooting Assignment 5: Final Project

The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say, 'There is the surface. Now think - or rather feel, intuit - what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks that way. 'Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy... The very muteness of what is, hypothetically, comprehensible in photographs is what constitutes their attraction and provocativeness

- Susan Sontag

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Lee Friedlander

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Nikki S. Lee

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EJ Bellocq

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Richard Billingham

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Harry Callahan

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Assignment 4: Portraiture, Self-Portraiture, and Depth of Field

As sociologists and psychologists will confirm, people are not simply what they are but rather are engaged in a continuing process of creating and projecting themselves.  Language, gestures, clothing, and the like are the usual means by which people announce their social aspirations, express their fantasies, and mark out the boundaries of their identities.  Such ideal projections seldom appear completely natural and do not always fit harmoniously into the external reality.  Cracks, incongruities, and contradictions with the environment can be expected; the element of fiction is usually unmistakable.  The camera is very sensitive to this phenomenon, but not every camera operator knows it. 

- Gunther Sander, August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century 

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Horst P. Horst

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Ryan Mcginley

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Uta Barth

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Joel Meyerowitz

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Hans Hockx

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Shooting Assignment 3: Light and Color as Subject

Light functions in photographs as a psychological metaphor and an aesthetic quality.  The light of creation, the light of goodness, the light of reason are all metaphorical, visual associations of light with language and meaning.  In the photograph, the acute description of light lends it added power as a language element.  The subltlies of light enrich the meaning of any photograph.  After all, the word photography means ”writing with light.”  Light is never a neutral element in a photograph. 

- Gary Kolb, Photographing In The Studio