Bill Gaskins
Bio: Photographer and Essayist. Author: Good and Bad Hair. Essays published: New Art Examiner, Afterimage, Dialogue. Visiting artist: University of Minnesota, Syracuse University, American Photography Institute at NYU, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lecturer in photography, Howard University. MFA, Maryland Institute.
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CoursesHistory of Photography The purpose of this course is to familiarize each student with the major conceptual, ideological, cultural and aesthetic issues that comprise the history of photography. Intermediate Photography This is an intermediate course to photography as a visual language and will teach students the technique, aesthetics and theory of photographic images through a variety of assignments, readings, field trips and lectures. Students are encouraged to experiment with different modes of photography and to create a final project based on individual interests. Photo Topics: FACE TO FACE... FACE TO FACE: PHOTOGRAPHY POLITICS
Artists and intellectuals acknowledge how profoundly history and politics inflect creativity and the process of representation. In times of struggle as insurgent acts have become every day events, artists/photographers direct their cameras as a means of resistance, to document, to express their ideological positions or to reflect on the social effects of violence. Photo Topics: WHAT MAKES PHOTO... WHAT MAKES PHOTOGRAPHY “ART”?
The photograph as “art” is a creative visual document that is a form of personal expression and a revealing mirror on the individuals that produce these images, and the various culture(s) that influence them. Photography 1 This course is an introduction to photography as a visual language and will teach students the technique, aesthetics and theory of photographic images through a variety of assignments, readings, field trips and lectures. Students are encouraged to experiment with different modes of photography and to create a final project based on individual interests.
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