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Photography Foundations — PHO2302.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 4
The objective of this course is to provide students with a proficiency in the basics of 35mm black and white photography. Class time will be spent working in the darkroom, lab demonstrations discussions of student work. In addition to technical lectures and reviews, a selection of images from the history of photography will be shown and discussed throughout the semester. The
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Photography Foundations — PHO2136.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Credits: 4
This is an analog film-based black-and-white photography course designed for those with little or no experience in photography. Emphasis will be placed on the application of technique in terms of personal expression through the selection and composition of subject matter. The course comprises technical lectures, darkroom demonstrations; lectures on historical and contemporary
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Photography Foundations (Analog) — PHO2136.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at Bennington? This course explores a wide range of approaches to the medium and introduces students to the various photographic genres with an emphasis on contemporary practice. The class will be devoted to both black and white and color analog materials and processes, including cameras, light kits, and light meters available at the
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Photography Foundations, Analog + Digital — PHO2136.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at Bennington? This course explores a wide range of approaches to the medium and introduces students to the various photographic genres with an emphasis on contemporary practice. The first half of the class will be primarily devoted to black and white analog materials and processes, including an introduction to medium format cameras,
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Photography Foundations, Analog + Digital — PHO2136.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at Bennington? This course explores a wide range of approaches to the medium and introduces students to the various photographic genres with an emphasis on contemporary practice. The class will be covering black and white analog materials and processes in the first seven weeks and switching over to digital capture and inkjet printing in
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Photography Foundations: Analog — PHO2136.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course allows students to explore the practice of photography using analog cameras and black and white film. Students will acquire basic skills in 35mm camera handling, light meters and exposure, film development, and making enlargements in the wet labs. In addition, the class will research the formal and socio-political content of contemporary practitioners working
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Photography in the Expanded Field — PHO4127.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 2
Photography in the expanded field is a new 7 week, advanced course, which will allow students, who are working primarily with Photography, to make progress with their work and projects in relation to presentation or exhibition of their project/s. We will examine opportunities for display to support student work while at Bennington.  The "groundwork" developed in this
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Photography in the Expanded Field — PHO4111.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: elizabeth white
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This studio/seminar invites students to explore some of the various ways photography has been used by artists over the last fifty years, including intersections with video, installation, conceptual art, performance, and collaborative social practices. Assignments encourage experimentation with formal and conceptual strategies while readings provide historical and theoretical
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Photography in Zeros and Ones — PHO4126.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Designed for students who have experience working with manual cameras and printing in the darkroom, this course offers an overview of tools and techniques basic to digital photographic practice and invites students to think critically about photography’s uses in to contemporary digital culture. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras, process raw files in
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Photography Now / 1980-Present — PHO2460.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 2
This course explores the evolution of contemporary photography from the 1980’s to the present day. We will be looking at a wide range of influences from identity politics, TV and film, social media, and the move from analog to digital technologies. Covering established photographers such as Nan Goldin, Lorna Simpson, Rineke Dijkstra, we will also look at more recent work by
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Photography Projects: Visions and Versions — PHO4127.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 4
This course offers students the opportunity to develop their creative vision and technical skills in photography through experimentation, revision, and refinement. Inspired by their own curiosity and concerns, students will generate work each week, and will push themselves to explore multiple approaches and techniques. Assignments will include open ended prompts as well as
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Photography Remade — PHO2155.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 2
This 2-credit course invites students to remake existing photographs by adding, removing, combining, rearranging, and distorting content, and to create synthetic images using artificial intelligence (AI). Students are welcome to shoot their own photographs, however this is not required, and it is not necessary to have a camera. Instead, the emphasis will be on how to work
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Photography Remade — PHO2155.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 2
This 2-credit course invites students to remake existing images, and explores digital techniques for adding, removing, combining, rearranging, and distorting content. Students are welcome to shoot their own photographs, however this is not required, and it is not necessary to have a camera. Instead, the emphasis will be on how to work creatively with image selection,
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Photography, Materiality, and Storytelling — PHO4213.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course draws on feminist and queer theory and visual anthropology methods to explore how photographers work with materiality to create representations of desired realities and criticize curatorial practices and “official histories,” especially those connected to migration, displacement, and colonization. The course will look at examples of photography
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Photography, Visual Culture and the Internet — PHO4253.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Oliver Wasow
Credits: 4
This class will explore the increasingly important relationship between visual culture and the Internet. with an emphasis on understanding the profound effect the shift from analog to digital technology has had on how we make, look at, talk about and distribute images in contemporary culture.  Focusing on the myriad ways in which individuals and social organizations engage
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Physical Computing — DA4108.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 4
The physical and the digital are often thought of as distinct and disparate. This class will be an investigation into notions of physicality and interface with respect to the computer, microcontrollers, and explorations of related analog and digital technologies. Basic electronics and various sensor mechanisms will be used in conjunction with toolkits such as Arduino. The
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Picture Pattern Paper Model — DES4105.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

In this course, we will explore the visual and spatial potential of cut paper models. The course will begin with a number of directed drawing and model-making exercises, and end with original work made with paper, knives, and glue. Students will study and do research on paper models by a variety of contemporary artists and architects–Zarina’s

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Picture Pattern Paper Model — VA4322.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the visual and spatial potential of cut paper models. The course will begin with a number of directed drawing and model-making exercises, and end with original work made with paper, knives, and glue. Students will study and do research on paper models by a variety of contemporary artists and architects–Zarina's paper houses, Siah Armajani's
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Pictures from Home — PHO4795.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 2
Exploring “home” as photographic site and subject, this course invites students to make work in response to prompts, and supports the development of an independent project through regular group critiques. Students will learn about historical and contemporary artists who have used their domestic space to make photographs, and consider how intimate life and everyday objects can
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Place: Setting - the Dining Room — ARC4146.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
The place of the shared meal is a locus of multiple design problems, from the place setting to the chair, and from the table to the room itself. It is a site of routine and ritual where, along with sustenance, we enjoy sensory and aesthetic pleasures, and social interaction. The routines and rituals of eating have changed significantly over the past several generations. This
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Plaster Working — SCU2127.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This seven week intensive class will be focused on understanding some basic methods for working with plaster. We will take a look at variety of gypsum products to understand their similarities and differences. Plaster has an amazing way of mimicking life. In this class, we will learn the states at which plaster transforms and use our hands to open our minds to the endless ways
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Plate Lithography Workshop — PRI2117.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Smoot
Credits: 2
This seven week workshop will cover the basic concepts and techniques for producing lithographic prints using aluminum plates, photo-lithographic plates, and pronto plates. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to explore more experimental techniques like photocopy lithography and aluminum foil lithography. Lithography is a printmaking process that allows for the
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Point, Curve, Surface, Solid - 3D Modeling and Fabrication — VA2117.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 2
This course explores methods of translating imagined shapes into three-dimensional objects. Students will study how sub-division, approximation, and discretization can be used to separate forms into component parts. Course work will focus on how systematic breaking-down of form reveals qualities that can be intentionally altered, thus changing their properties (visible or
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Political Ceramics — CER4210.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This class will investigate the nature of making objects that address current political issues relating to the upcoming presidential election. Students will be asked to explore, identify culturally held meanings, values, and imagery stemming from the political discussion of our national debate leading up to the November election. From these discussions students will create work
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Portable Nature — DA4112.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
Portable Nature is a collaborative course between students from Bennington College and students from the school of Art, Media + Technology at Parsons School of Design. It begins with the notion that nature is a constantly evolving and negotiated experience between humans and their environments. What we consider to be ‘natural’ is cultural, simultaneously managed and
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