ARTSTUDI 271A: Intermediate Photography: On Queerness

Course Description

In this studio course, we explore potentiality and experimentation in contemporary photography to challenge conventions, question definitions, and expand meanings. We approach photography as a strategic tool to subvert, intervene, resist, and bridge dichotomies, while moving beyond general categorizations of body, gender, and identity through an intersectional lens. Students examine queerness within the historical and current expanded field of representation to amplify notions of self, community, and action. This is an intermediate course in photography, with an ongoing emphasis on operating manual camera settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, color temp/ white balance). Students continue to work with Lightroom as a file management system, are introduced to Photoshop, and focus on the importance of photo editing/selection and sequencing. Students provide their own (SLR or Mirrorless) camera; software will be provided. Prerequisite: ARTSTUDI 170 or ARTSTUDI 171 or ARTSTUDI 173E or equivalent.