Part 1. Vision : Theory 1. Seeing, perceiving, and mediating vision : Photography and the anatomy of sight ; Conventions of seeing ; Mediated vision: photography and optical devices ; The viewer as distant or enmeshed observer: the camera obscura ; The natural eye: direct experience and photography ; Nineteenth-century viewing devices and their optical legacy ; The camera as mechanical eye ; New views: experiments in space and time

Practice 1. Vision: tools, materials, and processes : Exploring human vision ; The camera as viewer ; The camera as recorder

Part 2. Light and shadow : Theory 2. : Light and shadow : The void ; Writing and light ; "Light is radiation" ; Qualities of light ; The symbolism of light and dark ; Modern light and shadow ; Reflection, shadow and the self ; Projected light ; Shadow plays

Practice 2. Light and shadow: tools, materials, and processes : The source of light ; The path of light ; Light's terminal point

Part 3. Reproductive processes : Theory 3. Copying, capturing, and reproducing : Possessing the subject: the photographic copy ; Mass media and reproduction ; Mass reproduction and artworks ; Reproduction and ethics ; Reenacting as a photographic art

Practice 3. Reproductive processes: tools, materials, and processes : Low-tech positives and negatives ; Rubbings ; Infinite ways to generate images ; Recording images: film and digital sensors ; Digital sensors ; Filters ; Processing images: developing film ; Small tank film processing ; Black and white film processing ; Evaluating negatives ; Printing images: traditional processes ; Black and white photographic paper ; Black and white print processing ; The Photogram ; Printing a context sheet in the darkroom ; Non-silver and historic processes ; Screenprinting ; Processing digital images: digital workflow ; Adobe Bridge ; Adobe Lightroom ; Printing images: digital printing ; Color management ; Digital printing: printing black and white on a color printer ; The digital contact sheet ; Other printing options ; Reproducing photographs with other materials.

Part 4. Editing, presentation, and evaluation : Theory 4a. Series and sequence : Pictures at an exhibition ; Typology ; The body in the archive ; Images in sequence ; The passing of time ; Documenting artistic process ; Photobooks ; Slide shows ; Motion ; Sculpting with time

Theory 4b. Text and image : Is a picture worth a thousand words? ; Telling a story: the documentary tradition ; Selling the story: picture magazines and the photo essay ; Personal stories ; Questioning the story ; Instructions ; Speech ; Pictures of words: a forest of signs ; Word as image ; Photomontage

Practice 4. Editing, presentation, and evaluation: tools, materials, and processes : Editing: resizing digital images ; Digital tools: Adobe Photoshop tools panel ; Contrast and tone ; Adjusting image contrast in the darkroom ; Digital tonal adjustments ; Levels and curves ; Adjusting brightness locally: burning and dodging ; Color ; Digital color casts ; Digital color corrections ; Color conversions: toning and handcoloring print effects ; Print retouching techniques ; Digital photographic retouching ; Photo-based collage ; Culture jamming and collage ; Content and form ; Image appropriation and copyright concerns ; Handmade collage ; Digital collage ; Using text with photographs ; Handmade and alternative typesetting ; Creating text in the darkroom ; Integrating text and images digitally ; Special techniques for working digitally with type and images ; Presentation ; Mounting, matting, and framing ; Constructing a light box ; Photography on the internet ; Animating photographs ; Evaluation

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