Landscape and Architectural Photography

FA PH LA 230
Credit hours 3
Contact hours 90

The city of Florence, with its backdrop of Medieval and Renaissance buildings, coupled with the varied beauty of the Tuscan countryside, will offer students a stimulating range of opportunities for landscape and architectural photography. The course will be divided between outdoor field practice and the exploration of photographic techniques: black and white darkroom film development, printing, and finishing. The lab practice will give the student the capability of elaborating and printing her/his own pictures correctly. Traditional 35mm equipment will be used throughout the course. Students learn about the history, compositional issues and techniques of landscape and architectural photography by studying the work of influential photographers (e.g. Weston, Adams, Giacomelli, Strand, Basilico, etc.) and by conceiving, shooting, printing and laying out a series of landscape / naturalistic / architectural projects. This course is recommended for communications, architecture and environmental studies majors.

Prerequisites: Basic black & white darkroom experience is necessary. A traditional 35 mm camera with standard lens is required; a wide-angle zoom lens will also be helpful.