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Experimental Photography Summer 2023 @ The Evergreen State College

Faculty: Julia Zay

3-week intensive – Meets June 26 – July 14

Our first meeting is Mon June 26 @ 10am in Lib/Evans 1326 

8-cr students: MWF 10-5

4-cr students: MW 10-5 

Download Syllabus–> ExpPhotoIntroSummer23Syllabus

• MORE TO EXPLORE before the class begins: (see also the Readings/Resources section of this site)

• BOOKS/ESSAYS:

Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes, Lyle Rexer (2000) Out-of-print, available used.

Shadow Catchers: Cameraless Photography, Martin Barnes (2012) We will be reading the introduction as a PDF (see “Readings” section)

What is a Photograph? Carol Squiers (2014) [LINK to the related exhibition at ICP, NY]

Photography Beyond Technique, edited by Tom Persinger (2014). We will be reading essays from this collection as PDFs (see “Readings” section)

• ONLINE:

Process and Abstraction: Jessica Eaton, Mariah Robertson, Alison Rossiter 2015 exhibition site with links to interviews with each artist

Interview with Barbara Kasten, part of the Edge of Vision series to complement Rexer’s text

Abstraction in Photography. Panel discussion with art historians Lyle Rexer and George Baker, and artists Susan Rankaitis and James Welling.

Vilem Flusser lecture excerpt Budapest, April 1990.