#some non-outsider more experimental/established artists r

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its so embarrassing to say "outsider music" when someone asks u ur fav kind of music especially after some utuber made a video about it im a sensationalist way like 2-3 yrs ago(?) idk but whenever someone makes a youtube video abt something i like i get #1 diahrrea "they fucking caught me" stage fright but like listen to the compilation album series songs in the key of z and then work u way out through tht itll open up so much for u also radiooo is a great app for expanding ur taste internationally like ive found some of my fav artists over radiooo

#but like oke #here r some outsider music basics #some regular boy 'heres where to start' stuff #daniel johnson #wesley willis #the shaggs #lucia pamela #legendary stardust cowboy #specifically hanaterash 4 #and here's some more mainstream guys who might also be shelved as 'outsider music' #(i kind of have a little bit of tension w the label outsider music but its what i have been able to find lots and lots of artists i love) #(cos the qualifiers are normally someone mentally ill/disabled/otherwise excluded from 'proper' musical spaces) #some non-outsider more experimental/established artists r #john s hall & kramer #bongwater #diamanda galas #cpt beefheart #the residents #dogbowl #king missile #... i feel like that /mu copypasta but who CARE #i already have a music blog #the damage is already done #wine drunk. will elaborate more later #but a lot of the more embarrassing stuff the real damning admission is I LIKE CARTOON MUSIC like #i would genuinely listen to in the hall of the mountain king or yackety sax or penis music or laughter by jurgen schlachter

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Photography Schools: Where to go to Learn Photography

Photography has long been a favorite hobby for many. But what do you do when you are ready to take your hobby to the next level and become a professional photographer? DO you go to school and get a degree? Or do you teach yourself via online classes?

There are pros and cons to both paths. First, going to a photography school can get very expensive and it can be time consuming. Some people do not see this as a problem, but rather as an investment in their career. Others have the passion to learn, but not the time and money. For them learning online is the way to go. When you are learning photography on your own, you have to have the discipline to keep up with your studies, something that is more structured when you take a class. Also when attending a photography class, you have a teacher to look over your photos and give you criticism and advice. If you are learning on your own, you will need to find someone to do this for you. In the end it is up to you to decide with path to photography is best for you according to your needs. In this article, you will receive the resources to research your decision.

According to ResourceOnline, here are 15 great photography schools in the US

Virginia Commonwealth University  

Our department aims to facilitate a comprehensive artistic, technical and intellectual understanding and use of the mediums of photography and film; to provide a rigorous education in the arts, specifically in photographic and moving image media, and a broad education in other academic subjects; to foster a climate that inspires creativity, intellectual curiosity, freedom of expression, and critical thinking. We emphasize hands-on experience in the fields of fine art, studio and location photography, and narrative, documentary and experimental filmmaking and sponsor a wide variety of guest lectures, seminars and workshops. All students become adept in chemical based processes and the latest digital technologies.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design  

The MassArt Photography Program teaches photography as fine art with an emphasis on personal vision, experimentation, and an understanding of the history of photography and the body of criticism that surrounds it. Students are introduced to a wide array of both film-based and digital tools; they become well-versed in the medium’s technical and aesthetic traditions while exploring contemporary directions through slide lectures and critiques. Our curriculum covers both analog and digital production and offers a wide variety of elective courses providing a strong foundation for critical thinking, collaboration, and a career in photographic arts.

University of Arizona

The Photography division faculty and students conduct a rigorous investigation into the nature and meaning of photographic representation and its role in contemporary culture. Students are expected to demonstrate commitment to expressive inquiry, maturity of vision and take responsibility for their professional development as artists. The division takes a broad and progressive approach to the practice and definition of photography, encouraging you to question and expand the boundaries of the medium. The curriculum offers courses in traditional black and white darkroom techniques, digital and other image-forming technologies, color processes, large-scale photography, video, and performance. Facilities include group and semi-private black and white darkrooms and film processing areas, color enlargers and a 20” processor, professional lighting studio and large format digital output facilities. See more in the Photography Facilities section.

   The Center for Creative Photography plays an important role in the education of photography and art history students by offering access to all      of the Center’s resources, including semester-long internships and lectures by distinguished photographers, historians, and critics. Studio         photography and art history students studying the history of photography take advantage of photographic exhibitions, lectures, print viewings, gallery talks, an extensive photographic library, an artists’ book collection, and a world class archive of photographs and related material.

Maryland Institute College of Art  

One of the first programs of its kind worldwide, the photography program at MICA was established more than 100 years ago. Building on this legacy, the program today thoroughly examines both still and digital photography while encouraging a diversity of approaches. Students master technical skills as they work in state-of-the-art digital facilities, learn traditional and alternative darkroom processes, and develop a deep understanding of the medium’s history and contemporary directions.

Arizona State University

Students learn from faculty with diverse creative concerns and who cultivate technique in the service of ideas, parallel to the critical and cultural analysis of the medium. Students have access to the widest range of photographic possibilities, including silver gelatin, chromogenic color, digital imaging, video, alternative processes and mixed media. Students explore interdisciplinary options in their art through other disciplines, including printmaking, intermedia and sculpture.

Columbia College (IL)

We’ve never lived in a more visual society. Within it, there’s a growing need for photographers and image innovators––professionals who conceptualize, create and drive future advances in visual technology. Columbia’s internationally known Photography Department and its renowned faculty and facilities will give you an unparalleled foundation for an enduring career.

California College of the Arts

In our Photography Program, you’ll discover inspiration all around you, whether you’re capturing the small, human details of everyday life or exploring larger, abstract ideas about culture and identity. As you map this creative territory, you’ll also be developing your technical digital and analog skills. You will make images that have a real impact on your personal and professional communities.

University of California(Los Angeles)

Focusing on the interrelation of photography and art, study in this area is directed toward works of art made using photographs. Ability to understand and discuss photography’s unique historical, material, and narrative potential is emphasized over technical considerations. Work in installation art and video in conjunction with photography is encouraged.

Yale School of Fine Art

Photography is a two-year program of study admitting nine students a year. Darkroom, studio, and computer facilities are provided. Students receive technical instruction in black-and-white and color photography as well as nonsilver processes and digital image production.

The program is committed to a broad definition of photography as a lens-based medium open to a variety of expressive means. Students work both individually and in groups with faculty and visiting artists. In addition, a critique panel composed of faculty and other artists or critics meets weekly, as well as for a final review each term, to discuss student work.

School of Visual Art

The BFA photography program at the School of Visual Arts grounds students in the creative and technological skills of the medium as well as in the job opportunities available in the field. This means that by the end of your four years here, you’ll know how to process and print both black and white and color material; how to light a studio; how to use medium- and large-format cameras and how to work with digital materials. You’ll have had the opportunity to pursue fashion photography, landscape photography, still-life photography, portraiture, photojournalism and other genres of the medium. But equally as important, you’ll have an understanding of the professional world outside of SVA—practical and strategic knowledge to land a position where you can put your formidable skills to work.

University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico Photography Program is a fluid investigation into visual literacy focusing on the creative possibilities of lens-based imaging. Emphasis, in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, is placed on the student’s personal growth through aesthetic and intellectual development.

Rhode Island School of Design

RISD approaches photography as an ever-changing set of technical, conceptual and aesthetic conditions that exist within a broad social and cultural context. Students delve into the making, presentation and interpretation of photographic images, exploring photography as both a language and a craft. Ultimately, they learn how to use cultural signifiers, symbols and metaphors in the content and structure of image making.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Our multifaceted approach to the medium includes traditional forms of image making and conceptually oriented practices and makes the SAIC Photography program uniquely diverse.

As a student in the Photography department, you will: explore the practice and theory of photography, practice your art in a supportive, non hierarchical community among faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students, and work with state-of-the-art equipment and enjoy access to all the resources of the school.

Rochester Institute of Technology

The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences prepares students for a wide range of exciting careers in photography and the modern ever-changing field of imaging. Image making is taught through courses investigating methods and aesthetics required in pictorial and information-based images, videos, websites and publications.

California Institute of the Arts

The Program in Photography and Media is committed to educating independent artists in a world where photographic imagery and new media representations and strategies are omnipresent. From foundation work through graduate studies, courses are designed to challenge conventional notions of artistic practice and to question the position of representation within contemporary culture. The program encourages debate and experimentation, since nothing is stable or even particularly comfortable in photography’s relation to the other arts-especially in an environment that includes so many new practices. The faculty represents a broad range of those practices, some purely photographic, some entirely digital and others branching off into writing and publishing, painting, video, film-making, assemblage, net art, digital media and installation.

FREE ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES

There are many online photography courses out there, free and paid. Here is a list of some of the best free online photography courses according to PetaPixel:

Introduction to Photography and Related Media

Basics of Photography: The Complete Guide

Free Beginner Nikon Digital SLR Photography

Photography: Ditch Auto – Start Shooting in Manual

Karl Taylor’s FREE Photography Course

A Complete Introduction to Photography (aka Reddit Photoclass)

Strobist

Cambridge in Colour

Using a Photographic Light Meter

Pixels After Dark: Shooting the Night

Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5

Photoshop & Lightroom for Photographers

Create a Gorgeous Photography Site with SmugMug in 90 mins

Computational Photography

Phlearn

Anthony Morganti’s Video Series on Lightroom 5

An Introduction To Tilt + Shift Photography

The Art of Photography

Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion

Photography and Truth

History of Photography Podcasts

Digital Photography School

Creative Live Photography

Tuts Plus Photography Tutorials

No matter how you take your photography lessons, you need to get started. Do your research on the photography schools listed above as well as the free online photography courses. Decide where you’d like to start and get going. Here is a video from Phlearn to get you started. The best of luck to you.

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CFP: NSU Circle 7 Artistic Research - Call for potentials 2018

CALL FOR POTENTIALS 2018

NSU Artistic research study circle 7 invite proposals for workshops, interventions, presentations and experiments on the theme of

 reActivate and revisit

 Practicing Communities: Transformative societal strategies of artistic research Winter Symposium: March 2 – 4, 2018

at

Zirgu Pasts, Latvian Academy of Culture/Latviljas Kultῡras Akadēmija, Riga

The Circle 7 2016-2018 cycle is called: Practicing Communities: Transformative societal strategies of artistic research and this winter symposium will be the fifth of six symposia taking place in a different Nordic or Baltic country. The circle aims to share ways artistic research can explore and create transformative societal strategies. It provides a space for theoretical and artistic experimentation and cross-fertilization of methodologies and aims to develop insights that could be used in further research.

We invite scholars and artists from all fields to take part in our Practicing Communities study circle, a migratory non-hierarchical group of international artistic researchers. Our circle is developed within the Nordic and Baltic framework of Nordic Summer University.  Since its inception, the primary aim has been to provide a forum for experimentation and cross-disciplinary collaboration welcoming members both from within and outside of universities and art institutions.

In 2016 we held our Winter Symposium on Transformation with a local host, Zirgu Pasts, Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga, Dzirnavu iela 46. For the first time, the circle will be returning to the same hosts. For some joining us for Winter 2018 this will be a first visit to the Academy and for others it will be a return and opportunity to continue and build relationships with the hosts and local area.

Theme

In this winter symposium, Study Circle 7 invites researchers and artists from all fields to take part in exploring the themes:

reActivate and reVisit  

Things to consider may include examining:

issues of restoring (something) to a state of activity; bringing back into action

considering what it means to come back to or visit again

exploring a situation or problem again or from a different perspective

what strategies and practice/research can we develop from reactivating & revisiting?

how do notions of returning and reactiviating affect and form distinct ways of knowing     between artists, and non-artists, and artists and environments?

what tools and methods can we develop to chronicle and critique these?

How to submit a proposal

Submit a written proposal (NO MORE THAN 350 words)

Include a title and descriptive subtitle

Tell us what facilities you need (i.e. technical equipment)

Submit a short bio (NO MORE THAN 200 words)

If you wish to attend the symposium without presenting

Submit a short bio – please note, we will add your name to a list and inform you if spaces are available by October 31st 2017. Priority will be given to those wishing to perform/present.

What next

We welcome proposals for presentations of artistic research in various formats including:

Indoor and outdoor experiments; workshops; demonstrations; collaborations; presentations or excerpts of on-going work. We also welcome more traditional, theoretical reflections and short papers. Participants are encouraged to form constellation presentations with one or more other members that reflect points of intersection in your work.

We aim to allocate each presentation/performance a 30-minute time slot but are happy to discuss individual needs.

ALL applications must be sent via email to the coordinators

Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt & Lucy Lyons: [email protected]

  Important dates

Deadline for proposals                               October 1st 2017

Applicants informed of outcome              October 31st 2017

Preliminary schedule                                   December 15th 2017

Deadline for registration&payment          Jan 15 2018

This will be on http://nordic.university/ where you can also find more information about NSU and sign up for the newsletter.

Registration and fee (for symposium only)

Students and freelance artists:                €90 Those associated with institutions:         €180 Baltic residents:                                          €35

This cost includes lunches and dinners. Moreover, NSU will organize and pay for basic accommodation for all participants not funded by their institutions on the understanding they will share a double room. The registration fee must be paid via bank transfer in advance of the conference no later than Jan 15 2018.

 Participants should apply to their institutions, Art Councils, local foundations or sponsors to have their travel cost covered.

More about NSU The Nordic Summer University (NSU) is a Nordic network for research and interdisciplinary studies. NSU is a nomadic, academic institution, which organises workshop‐seminars across disciplinary and national borders. Since it was established in 1950, Nordic Summer University has organised forums for cultural and intellectual debate in the Nordic and Baltic region, involving students, academics, politicians, and intellectuals from this region and beyond.

Decisions about the content and the organisational form of NSU lie with its participants. The backbone of the activities in NSU consists of its thematic study circles. In the study circles researchers, students and professionals from different backgrounds collaborate in scholarly investigations distributed regularly in summer and winter symposia during a three‐year period.

For more information www.nordic.university

  Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt and Lucy Lyons NSU Artistic Research Coordinators

Nordic Summer University c/o Foreningerne Nordens Forbund Snaregade 10A, 3. 1205 Copenhagen K http://nordic.university/

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Photography Schools: Where to go to Learn Photography

Photography has long been a favorite hobby for many. But what do you do when you are ready to take your hobby to the next level and become a professional photographer? DO you go to school and get a degree? Or do you teach yourself via online classes?

There are pros and cons to both paths. First, going to a photography school can get very expensive and it can be time consuming. Some people do not see this as a problem, but rather as an investment in their career. Others have the passion to learn, but not the time and money. For them learning online is the way to go. When you are learning photography on your own, you have to have the discipline to keep up with your studies, something that is more structured when you take a class. Also when attending a photography class, you have a teacher to look over your photos and give you criticism and advice. If you are learning on your own, you will need to find someone to do this for you. In the end it is up to you to decide with path to photography is best for you according to your needs. In this article, you will receive the resources to research your decision.

According to ResourceOnline, here are 15 great photography schools in the US

Virginia Commonwealth University  

Our department aims to facilitate a comprehensive artistic, technical and intellectual understanding and use of the mediums of photography and film; to provide a rigorous education in the arts, specifically in photographic and moving image media, and a broad education in other academic subjects; to foster a climate that inspires creativity, intellectual curiosity, freedom of expression, and critical thinking. We emphasize hands-on experience in the fields of fine art, studio and location photography, and narrative, documentary and experimental filmmaking and sponsor a wide variety of guest lectures, seminars and workshops. All students become adept in chemical based processes and the latest digital technologies.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design  

The MassArt Photography Program teaches photography as fine art with an emphasis on personal vision, experimentation, and an understanding of the history of photography and the body of criticism that surrounds it. Students are introduced to a wide array of both film-based and digital tools; they become well-versed in the medium’s technical and aesthetic traditions while exploring contemporary directions through slide lectures and critiques. Our curriculum covers both analog and digital production and offers a wide variety of elective courses providing a strong foundation for critical thinking, collaboration, and a career in photographic arts.

University of Arizona

The Photography division faculty and students conduct a rigorous investigation into the nature and meaning of photographic representation and its role in contemporary culture. Students are expected to demonstrate commitment to expressive inquiry, maturity of vision and take responsibility for their professional development as artists. The division takes a broad and progressive approach to the practice and definition of photography, encouraging you to question and expand the boundaries of the medium. The curriculum offers courses in traditional black and white darkroom techniques, digital and other image-forming technologies, color processes, large-scale photography, video, and performance. Facilities include group and semi-private black and white darkrooms and film processing areas, color enlargers and a 20” processor, professional lighting studio and large format digital output facilities. See more in the Photography Facilities section.

   The Center for Creative Photography plays an important role in the education of photography and art history students by offering access to all      of the Center’s resources, including semester-long internships and lectures by distinguished photographers, historians, and critics. Studio         photography and art history students studying the history of photography take advantage of photographic exhibitions, lectures, print viewings, gallery talks, an extensive photographic library, an artists’ book collection, and a world class archive of photographs and related material.

Maryland Institute College of Art  

One of the first programs of its kind worldwide, the photography program at MICA was established more than 100 years ago. Building on this legacy, the program today thoroughly examines both still and digital photography while encouraging a diversity of approaches. Students master technical skills as they work in state-of-the-art digital facilities, learn traditional and alternative darkroom processes, and develop a deep understanding of the medium’s history and contemporary directions.

Arizona State University

Students learn from faculty with diverse creative concerns and who cultivate technique in the service of ideas, parallel to the critical and cultural analysis of the medium. Students have access to the widest range of photographic possibilities, including silver gelatin, chromogenic color, digital imaging, video, alternative processes and mixed media. Students explore interdisciplinary options in their art through other disciplines, including printmaking, intermedia and sculpture.

Columbia College (IL)

We’ve never lived in a more visual society. Within it, there’s a growing need for photographers and image innovators––professionals who conceptualize, create and drive future advances in visual technology. Columbia’s internationally known Photography Department and its renowned faculty and facilities will give you an unparalleled foundation for an enduring career.

California College of the Arts

In our Photography Program, you’ll discover inspiration all around you, whether you’re capturing the small, human details of everyday life or exploring larger, abstract ideas about culture and identity. As you map this creative territory, you’ll also be developing your technical digital and analog skills. You will make images that have a real impact on your personal and professional communities.

University of California(Los Angeles)

Focusing on the interrelation of photography and art, study in this area is directed toward works of art made using photographs. Ability to understand and discuss photography’s unique historical, material, and narrative potential is emphasized over technical considerations. Work in installation art and video in conjunction with photography is encouraged.

Yale School of Fine Art

Photography is a two-year program of study admitting nine students a year. Darkroom, studio, and computer facilities are provided. Students receive technical instruction in black-and-white and color photography as well as nonsilver processes and digital image production.

The program is committed to a broad definition of photography as a lens-based medium open to a variety of expressive means. Students work both individually and in groups with faculty and visiting artists. In addition, a critique panel composed of faculty and other artists or critics meets weekly, as well as for a final review each term, to discuss student work.

School of Visual Art

The BFA photography program at the School of Visual Arts grounds students in the creative and technological skills of the medium as well as in the job opportunities available in the field. This means that by the end of your four years here, you’ll know how to process and print both black and white and color material; how to light a studio; how to use medium- and large-format cameras and how to work with digital materials. You’ll have had the opportunity to pursue fashion photography, landscape photography, still-life photography, portraiture, photojournalism and other genres of the medium. But equally as important, you’ll have an understanding of the professional world outside of SVA—practical and strategic knowledge to land a position where you can put your formidable skills to work.

University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico Photography Program is a fluid investigation into visual literacy focusing on the creative possibilities of lens-based imaging. Emphasis, in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, is placed on the student’s personal growth through aesthetic and intellectual development.

Rhode Island School of Design

RISD approaches photography as an ever-changing set of technical, conceptual and aesthetic conditions that exist within a broad social and cultural context. Students delve into the making, presentation and interpretation of photographic images, exploring photography as both a language and a craft. Ultimately, they learn how to use cultural signifiers, symbols and metaphors in the content and structure of image making.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Our multifaceted approach to the medium includes traditional forms of image making and conceptually oriented practices and makes the SAIC Photography program uniquely diverse.

As a student in the Photography department, you will: explore the practice and theory of photography, practice your art in a supportive, non hierarchical community among faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students, and work with state-of-the-art equipment and enjoy access to all the resources of the school.

Rochester Institute of Technology

The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences prepares students for a wide range of exciting careers in photography and the modern ever-changing field of imaging. Image making is taught through courses investigating methods and aesthetics required in pictorial and information-based images, videos, websites and publications.

California Institute of the Arts

The Program in Photography and Media is committed to educating independent artists in a world where photographic imagery and new media representations and strategies are omnipresent. From foundation work through graduate studies, courses are designed to challenge conventional notions of artistic practice and to question the position of representation within contemporary culture. The program encourages debate and experimentation, since nothing is stable or even particularly comfortable in photography’s relation to the other arts-especially in an environment that includes so many new practices. The faculty represents a broad range of those practices, some purely photographic, some entirely digital and others branching off into writing and publishing, painting, video, film-making, assemblage, net art, digital media and installation.

FREE ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES

There are many online photography courses out there, free and paid. Here is a list of some of the best free online photography courses according to PetaPixel:

Introduction to Photography and Related Media

Basics of Photography: The Complete Guide

Free Beginner Nikon Digital SLR Photography

Photography: Ditch Auto – Start Shooting in Manual

Karl Taylor’s FREE Photography Course

A Complete Introduction to Photography (aka Reddit Photoclass)

Strobist

Cambridge in Colour

Using a Photographic Light Meter

Pixels After Dark: Shooting the Night

Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5

Photoshop & Lightroom for Photographers

Create a Gorgeous Photography Site with SmugMug in 90 mins

Computational Photography

Phlearn

Anthony Morganti’s Video Series on Lightroom 5

An Introduction To Tilt + Shift Photography

The Art of Photography

Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion

Photography and Truth

History of Photography Podcasts

Digital Photography School

Creative Live Photography

Tuts Plus Photography Tutorials

No matter how you take your photography lessons, you need to get started. Do your research on the photography schools listed above as well as the free online photography courses. Decide where you’d like to start and get going. Here is a video from Phlearn to get you started. The best of luck to you.

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Photography Schools: Where to go to Learn Photography

Photography has long been a favorite hobby for many. But what do you do when you are ready to take your hobby to the next level and become a professional photographer? DO you go to school and get a degree? Or do you teach yourself via online classes?

There are pros and cons to both paths. First, going to a photography school can get very expensive and it can be time consuming. Some people do not see this as a problem, but rather as an investment in their career. Others have the passion to learn, but not the time and money. For them learning online is the way to go. When you are learning photography on your own, you have to have the discipline to keep up with your studies, something that is more structured when you take a class. Also when attending a photography class, you have a teacher to look over your photos and give you criticism and advice. If you are learning on your own, you will need to find someone to do this for you. In the end it is up to you to decide with path to photography is best for you according to your needs. In this article, you will receive the resources to research your decision.

According to ResourceOnline, here are 15 great photography schools in the US

Virginia Commonwealth University  

Our department aims to facilitate a comprehensive artistic, technical and intellectual understanding and use of the mediums of photography and film; to provide a rigorous education in the arts, specifically in photographic and moving image media, and a broad education in other academic subjects; to foster a climate that inspires creativity, intellectual curiosity, freedom of expression, and critical thinking. We emphasize hands-on experience in the fields of fine art, studio and location photography, and narrative, documentary and experimental filmmaking and sponsor a wide variety of guest lectures, seminars and workshops. All students become adept in chemical based processes and the latest digital technologies.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design  

The MassArt Photography Program teaches photography as fine art with an emphasis on personal vision, experimentation, and an understanding of the history of photography and the body of criticism that surrounds it. Students are introduced to a wide array of both film-based and digital tools; they become well-versed in the medium’s technical and aesthetic traditions while exploring contemporary directions through slide lectures and critiques. Our curriculum covers both analog and digital production and offers a wide variety of elective courses providing a strong foundation for critical thinking, collaboration, and a career in photographic arts.

University of Arizona

The Photography division faculty and students conduct a rigorous investigation into the nature and meaning of photographic representation and its role in contemporary culture. Students are expected to demonstrate commitment to expressive inquiry, maturity of vision and take responsibility for their professional development as artists. The division takes a broad and progressive approach to the practice and definition of photography, encouraging you to question and expand the boundaries of the medium. The curriculum offers courses in traditional black and white darkroom techniques, digital and other image-forming technologies, color processes, large-scale photography, video, and performance. Facilities include group and semi-private black and white darkrooms and film processing areas, color enlargers and a 20” processor, professional lighting studio and large format digital output facilities. See more in the Photography Facilities section.

   The Center for Creative Photography plays an important role in the education of photography and art history students by offering access to all      of the Center’s resources, including semester-long internships and lectures by distinguished photographers, historians, and critics. Studio         photography and art history students studying the history of photography take advantage of photographic exhibitions, lectures, print viewings, gallery talks, an extensive photographic library, an artists’ book collection, and a world class archive of photographs and related material.

Maryland Institute College of Art  

One of the first programs of its kind worldwide, the photography program at MICA was established more than 100 years ago. Building on this legacy, the program today thoroughly examines both still and digital photography while encouraging a diversity of approaches. Students master technical skills as they work in state-of-the-art digital facilities, learn traditional and alternative darkroom processes, and develop a deep understanding of the medium’s history and contemporary directions.

Arizona State University

Students learn from faculty with diverse creative concerns and who cultivate technique in the service of ideas, parallel to the critical and cultural analysis of the medium. Students have access to the widest range of photographic possibilities, including silver gelatin, chromogenic color, digital imaging, video, alternative processes and mixed media. Students explore interdisciplinary options in their art through other disciplines, including printmaking, intermedia and sculpture.

Columbia College (IL)

We’ve never lived in a more visual society. Within it, there’s a growing need for photographers and image innovators––professionals who conceptualize, create and drive future advances in visual technology. Columbia’s internationally known Photography Department and its renowned faculty and facilities will give you an unparalleled foundation for an enduring career.

California College of the Arts

In our Photography Program, you’ll discover inspiration all around you, whether you’re capturing the small, human details of everyday life or exploring larger, abstract ideas about culture and identity. As you map this creative territory, you’ll also be developing your technical digital and analog skills. You will make images that have a real impact on your personal and professional communities.

University of California(Los Angeles)

Focusing on the interrelation of photography and art, study in this area is directed toward works of art made using photographs. Ability to understand and discuss photography’s unique historical, material, and narrative potential is emphasized over technical considerations. Work in installation art and video in conjunction with photography is encouraged.

Yale School of Fine Art

Photography is a two-year program of study admitting nine students a year. Darkroom, studio, and computer facilities are provided. Students receive technical instruction in black-and-white and color photography as well as nonsilver processes and digital image production.

The program is committed to a broad definition of photography as a lens-based medium open to a variety of expressive means. Students work both individually and in groups with faculty and visiting artists. In addition, a critique panel composed of faculty and other artists or critics meets weekly, as well as for a final review each term, to discuss student work.

School of Visual Art

The BFA photography program at the School of Visual Arts grounds students in the creative and technological skills of the medium as well as in the job opportunities available in the field. This means that by the end of your four years here, you’ll know how to process and print both black and white and color material; how to light a studio; how to use medium- and large-format cameras and how to work with digital materials. You’ll have had the opportunity to pursue fashion photography, landscape photography, still-life photography, portraiture, photojournalism and other genres of the medium. But equally as important, you’ll have an understanding of the professional world outside of SVA—practical and strategic knowledge to land a position where you can put your formidable skills to work.

University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico Photography Program is a fluid investigation into visual literacy focusing on the creative possibilities of lens-based imaging. Emphasis, in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, is placed on the student’s personal growth through aesthetic and intellectual development.

Rhode Island School of Design

RISD approaches photography as an ever-changing set of technical, conceptual and aesthetic conditions that exist within a broad social and cultural context. Students delve into the making, presentation and interpretation of photographic images, exploring photography as both a language and a craft. Ultimately, they learn how to use cultural signifiers, symbols and metaphors in the content and structure of image making.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Our multifaceted approach to the medium includes traditional forms of image making and conceptually oriented practices and makes the SAIC Photography program uniquely diverse.

As a student in the Photography department, you will: explore the practice and theory of photography, practice your art in a supportive, non hierarchical community among faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students, and work with state-of-the-art equipment and enjoy access to all the resources of the school.

Rochester Institute of Technology

The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences prepares students for a wide range of exciting careers in photography and the modern ever-changing field of imaging. Image making is taught through courses investigating methods and aesthetics required in pictorial and information-based images, videos, websites and publications.

California Institute of the Arts

The Program in Photography and Media is committed to educating independent artists in a world where photographic imagery and new media representations and strategies are omnipresent. From foundation work through graduate studies, courses are designed to challenge conventional notions of artistic practice and to question the position of representation within contemporary culture. The program encourages debate and experimentation, since nothing is stable or even particularly comfortable in photography’s relation to the other arts-especially in an environment that includes so many new practices. The faculty represents a broad range of those practices, some purely photographic, some entirely digital and others branching off into writing and publishing, painting, video, film-making, assemblage, net art, digital media and installation.

FREE ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES

There are many online photography courses out there, free and paid. Here is a list of some of the best free online photography courses according to PetaPixel:

Introduction to Photography and Related Media

Basics of Photography: The Complete Guide

Free Beginner Nikon Digital SLR Photography

Photography: Ditch Auto – Start Shooting in Manual

Karl Taylor’s FREE Photography Course

A Complete Introduction to Photography (aka Reddit Photoclass)

Strobist

Cambridge in Colour

Using a Photographic Light Meter

Pixels After Dark: Shooting the Night

Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5

Photoshop & Lightroom for Photographers

Create a Gorgeous Photography Site with SmugMug in 90 mins

Computational Photography

Phlearn

Anthony Morganti’s Video Series on Lightroom 5

An Introduction To Tilt + Shift Photography

The Art of Photography

Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion

Photography and Truth

History of Photography Podcasts

Digital Photography School

Creative Live Photography

Tuts Plus Photography Tutorials

No matter how you take your photography lessons, you need to get started. Do your research on the photography schools listed above as well as the free online photography courses. Decide where you’d like to start and get going. Here is a video from Phlearn to get you started. The best of luck to you.

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Photography Schools: Where to go to Learn Photography

Photography has long been a favorite hobby for many. But what do you do when you are ready to take your hobby to the next level and become a professional photographer? DO you go to school and get a degree? Or do you teach yourself via online classes?

There are pros and cons to both paths. First, going to a photography school can get very expensive and it can be time consuming. Some people do not see this as a problem, but rather as an investment in their career. Others have the passion to learn, but not the time and money. For them learning online is the way to go. When you are learning photography on your own, you have to have the discipline to keep up with your studies, something that is more structured when you take a class. Also when attending a photography class, you have a teacher to look over your photos and give you criticism and advice. If you are learning on your own, you will need to find someone to do this for you. In the end it is up to you to decide with path to photography is best for you according to your needs. In this article, you will receive the resources to research your decision.

According to ResourceOnline, here are 15 great photography schools in the US

Virginia Commonwealth University  

Our department aims to facilitate a comprehensive artistic, technical and intellectual understanding and use of the mediums of photography and film; to provide a rigorous education in the arts, specifically in photographic and moving image media, and a broad education in other academic subjects; to foster a climate that inspires creativity, intellectual curiosity, freedom of expression, and critical thinking. We emphasize hands-on experience in the fields of fine art, studio and location photography, and narrative, documentary and experimental filmmaking and sponsor a wide variety of guest lectures, seminars and workshops. All students become adept in chemical based processes and the latest digital technologies.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design  

The MassArt Photography Program teaches photography as fine art with an emphasis on personal vision, experimentation, and an understanding of the history of photography and the body of criticism that surrounds it. Students are introduced to a wide array of both film-based and digital tools; they become well-versed in the medium’s technical and aesthetic traditions while exploring contemporary directions through slide lectures and critiques. Our curriculum covers both analog and digital production and offers a wide variety of elective courses providing a strong foundation for critical thinking, collaboration, and a career in photographic arts.

University of Arizona

The Photography division faculty and students conduct a rigorous investigation into the nature and meaning of photographic representation and its role in contemporary culture. Students are expected to demonstrate commitment to expressive inquiry, maturity of vision and take responsibility for their professional development as artists. The division takes a broad and progressive approach to the practice and definition of photography, encouraging you to question and expand the boundaries of the medium. The curriculum offers courses in traditional black and white darkroom techniques, digital and other image-forming technologies, color processes, large-scale photography, video, and performance. Facilities include group and semi-private black and white darkrooms and film processing areas, color enlargers and a 20” processor, professional lighting studio and large format digital output facilities. See more in the Photography Facilities section.

   The Center for Creative Photography plays an important role in the education of photography and art history students by offering access to all      of the Center’s resources, including semester-long internships and lectures by distinguished photographers, historians, and critics. Studio         photography and art history students studying the history of photography take advantage of photographic exhibitions, lectures, print viewings, gallery talks, an extensive photographic library, an artists’ book collection, and a world class archive of photographs and related material.

Maryland Institute College of Art  

One of the first programs of its kind worldwide, the photography program at MICA was established more than 100 years ago. Building on this legacy, the program today thoroughly examines both still and digital photography while encouraging a diversity of approaches. Students master technical skills as they work in state-of-the-art digital facilities, learn traditional and alternative darkroom processes, and develop a deep understanding of the medium’s history and contemporary directions.

Arizona State University

Students learn from faculty with diverse creative concerns and who cultivate technique in the service of ideas, parallel to the critical and cultural analysis of the medium. Students have access to the widest range of photographic possibilities, including silver gelatin, chromogenic color, digital imaging, video, alternative processes and mixed media. Students explore interdisciplinary options in their art through other disciplines, including printmaking, intermedia and sculpture.

Columbia College (IL)

We’ve never lived in a more visual society. Within it, there’s a growing need for photographers and image innovators––professionals who conceptualize, create and drive future advances in visual technology. Columbia’s internationally known Photography Department and its renowned faculty and facilities will give you an unparalleled foundation for an enduring career.

California College of the Arts

In our Photography Program, you’ll discover inspiration all around you, whether you’re capturing the small, human details of everyday life or exploring larger, abstract ideas about culture and identity. As you map this creative territory, you’ll also be developing your technical digital and analog skills. You will make images that have a real impact on your personal and professional communities.

University of California(Los Angeles)

Focusing on the interrelation of photography and art, study in this area is directed toward works of art made using photographs. Ability to understand and discuss photography’s unique historical, material, and narrative potential is emphasized over technical considerations. Work in installation art and video in conjunction with photography is encouraged.

Yale School of Fine Art

Photography is a two-year program of study admitting nine students a year. Darkroom, studio, and computer facilities are provided. Students receive technical instruction in black-and-white and color photography as well as nonsilver processes and digital image production.

The program is committed to a broad definition of photography as a lens-based medium open to a variety of expressive means. Students work both individually and in groups with faculty and visiting artists. In addition, a critique panel composed of faculty and other artists or critics meets weekly, as well as for a final review each term, to discuss student work.

School of Visual Art

The BFA photography program at the School of Visual Arts grounds students in the creative and technological skills of the medium as well as in the job opportunities available in the field. This means that by the end of your four years here, you’ll know how to process and print both black and white and color material; how to light a studio; how to use medium- and large-format cameras and how to work with digital materials. You’ll have had the opportunity to pursue fashion photography, landscape photography, still-life photography, portraiture, photojournalism and other genres of the medium. But equally as important, you’ll have an understanding of the professional world outside of SVA—practical and strategic knowledge to land a position where you can put your formidable skills to work.

University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico Photography Program is a fluid investigation into visual literacy focusing on the creative possibilities of lens-based imaging. Emphasis, in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, is placed on the student’s personal growth through aesthetic and intellectual development.

Rhode Island School of Design

RISD approaches photography as an ever-changing set of technical, conceptual and aesthetic conditions that exist within a broad social and cultural context. Students delve into the making, presentation and interpretation of photographic images, exploring photography as both a language and a craft. Ultimately, they learn how to use cultural signifiers, symbols and metaphors in the content and structure of image making.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Our multifaceted approach to the medium includes traditional forms of image making and conceptually oriented practices and makes the SAIC Photography program uniquely diverse.

As a student in the Photography department, you will: explore the practice and theory of photography, practice your art in a supportive, non hierarchical community among faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students, and work with state-of-the-art equipment and enjoy access to all the resources of the school.

Rochester Institute of Technology

The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences prepares students for a wide range of exciting careers in photography and the modern ever-changing field of imaging. Image making is taught through courses investigating methods and aesthetics required in pictorial and information-based images, videos, websites and publications.

California Institute of the Arts

The Program in Photography and Media is committed to educating independent artists in a world where photographic imagery and new media representations and strategies are omnipresent. From foundation work through graduate studies, courses are designed to challenge conventional notions of artistic practice and to question the position of representation within contemporary culture. The program encourages debate and experimentation, since nothing is stable or even particularly comfortable in photography’s relation to the other arts-especially in an environment that includes so many new practices. The faculty represents a broad range of those practices, some purely photographic, some entirely digital and others branching off into writing and publishing, painting, video, film-making, assemblage, net art, digital media and installation.

FREE ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES

There are many online photography courses out there, free and paid. Here is a list of some of the best free online photography courses according to PetaPixel:

Introduction to Photography and Related Media

Basics of Photography: The Complete Guide

Free Beginner Nikon Digital SLR Photography

Photography: Ditch Auto – Start Shooting in Manual

Karl Taylor’s FREE Photography Course

A Complete Introduction to Photography (aka Reddit Photoclass)

Strobist

Cambridge in Colour

Using a Photographic Light Meter

Pixels After Dark: Shooting the Night

Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5

Photoshop & Lightroom for Photographers

Create a Gorgeous Photography Site with SmugMug in 90 mins

Computational Photography

Phlearn

Anthony Morganti’s Video Series on Lightroom 5

An Introduction To Tilt + Shift Photography

The Art of Photography

Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion

Photography and Truth

History of Photography Podcasts

Digital Photography School

Creative Live Photography

Tuts Plus Photography Tutorials

No matter how you take your photography lessons, you need to get started. Do your research on the photography schools listed above as well as the free online photography courses. Decide where you’d like to start and get going. Here is a video from Phlearn to get you started. The best of luck to you.

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