3 U.S. credits recommended
Language of instruction: English
This summer intensive course is designed to combine theoretical and practical approaches to provide an introductory, fundamental understanding of fashion images and the creative process behind their production. Through specific assignments and lectures, you will learn how to analyze fashion photography from historical, sociological, artistic, and commercial points of view. You will simultaneously experiment with practical photography techniques used at a professional level in order to be able to produce a fashion shoot, from the preliminary research and creation of a mood board to collaboration with a model to final editing of a finished selection deliverable to a client.
In the course, you explore photographic methods that enable you to see and interpret the meaning of style and help you develop your own artistic voice by experimenting with the collaborative process integral to fashion work. Creativity is understood as a process, a constant relationship of making to thinking, and constraints are seen as tools with which to foster creativity. As part of the photography project, students will learn how to defend their aesthetic choices in a critique environment and communicate their vision. Through readings, research, text integration, layout design, and artist statements students explore the various elements that make a fashion shoot successful.
Class sessions will include student presentations, discussions, critiques, shooting sessions, field trips, and guest talks. Thematic insights and lectures on the history of fashion photography, combined with current exhibitions and publications, will also provide opportunities to investigate the great diversity of fashion images circulating today.