I agree that teaching BW photography as a fine art is worthwhile. I too have kept my darkroom and plan to spend some time there again. However, general photography and commercial photography should be taught in terms of a digital workflow. Paul On Aug 5, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Steve Desjardins wrote:
> These courses are about B&W film photography and taught in the art > department. We have two brand new darkrooms that accommodate 16, also > in the art dept. I've had some nice talks with the new photography > professor, and she sees B&W film persisting indefinitely as an art > supply. I'm not surprised that film-based courses are going away as > "technical" subjects but they are becoming popular in art depts. at > schools that are not looking to squeeze every dime. This includes > many > of the private undergraduates colleges like mine. The course is > really > popular, as is the digital photography course also offered in art. > The > presence of film in mainstream photography is diminishing but I don't > see B&W film ever completely going away anymore than oil paints. If > anything, it is getting more of a cachet as an artistic technique. > > As an aside, I took so long to respond to this because I can't seem to > send posts to the list from the internet connection at my house. I > have > no idea why. I have to wait until I come into my office. > >>>> "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/3/2007 1:34 PM >>> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Desjardins" > Subject: Re: FID (Film is Dead) > > >> Film (at least B&W) still lives on in college photography courses. > Big >> new darkrooms and a long waiting list of students. The new > photography >> professor told me that last year she got the first group with > students >> that had never used film. Of course, they use mostly K1000s. > > Is that your college specifically or are film courses generally > available? > Our local tech college is no longer offering film anything. > As much as I appreciate and enjoy working with film, I see it as being > more > of an an appendix to a college of arts than anything else at this > point. > It's use by professional photographers is pretty much over at this > point (I > suspect Clint Clements is still using it, and this will be trotted out > as > proof of universal usage), the pro boys where I am are 100% digital > now. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > !SIG:46b36b6a117328588214762! > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
