Pre-requisite: This is the first course in Photography & Imaging: Digital and Analog sequence to be taken in the first year. Open to majors only. This course examines creative expression in the context of traditional analog methodology. It is a class about seeing and translating one?s vision into images. Topics include understanding light as an expressive element in a photograph. Form, content and ideas relating to portraiture, documentary, narrative, landscape and the still life will be incorporated into assignments and discussed at length. Through a series of exercises, students will be immersed in the craft of the medium: understanding exposure and metering, the physical and chemical development of film and print materials, and the means of making fine quality enlargements. Weekly assignments are designed to help the students develop a discipline in their working habits. The weekly critiques are designed to provide students with a forum in which to give each other critical and constructive feedback. Students will view slide lectures on contemporary photography as well as photographs from the medium?s rich past. They will visit and respond to relevant gallery and museum exhibits. The aim of this course is to immerse the student in the issues and ideas that have surfaced in the medium?s 200-year history. It is the teacher?s hope to provide the students with an environment wherein they can grow as perceptive image-makers, interesting thinkers and engaged human beings. Students must also register for Friday Recitation.