Urban Photography–URBDP 489/598
Summer Quarter 2013
MW 12:40-2:10 (3 Credits, Full Term)
Class Website: http://courses.washington.edu/urbphoto/
Instructor
Hossein Estiri
Course Description
This course is intended to deepen the understanding of urban spaces, and to enhance methodological skills in capturing different aspects of urban scenes. Photography will be used by students to focus on topics and details related to everyday life in urban spaces according to their own interests. Toward this end, the course will build upon two parallel paths encompassing:
1) Subjects from urban spaces; and
2) Topics from photography techniques.
Urban spaces subjects will be: conscious/unconscious spaces, space users (people/non-human animals), static/dynamic spaces, urban landscape and activities in space, urban form and architecture, urbanscape at night.
Students will gain hands on experience in expressing urban spaces through photography and put together a final portfolio.
Topics in photography will be discussed in 4 categories of color, motion, light, and photography for practitioners.
This course will follow a non-traditional class structure; limited lectures will be given and the class will progress through group discussions on the subjects/topics using the photos taken by students or from elsewhere.
A minimum number of three field trips are expected to Seattle Downtown for photography and space discussions and practices.
**Please note that this class is a elective and wont count for major requirements.