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Robert Clarke-Davis

Associate Professor

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Associate Professor, Photography (1990). BA, 1974, Beloit College; MA, 1982, University of London, Goldsmiths' College, School of Art and Design. Exhibitions: Cleveland Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Wuk Kunsthalle, Vienna; Magyar Fotogr'fiai M'zeum Kesckem't, Hungary. Gros Morne National Park Discovery Centre Woody Point NL. Publication: Pinhole Journal. Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art; Fine Arts Library, Indiana University, IN; Impressions Gallery, North Yorkshire; The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador. Awards: Purchase Award, Impressions Gallery; Pouch Cove Foundation Visual Artists Residency Parks Canada/Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador Art in the Park Residency, Gros Morne NL. Represented by James Baird Gallery.

 

Courses

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Description

This course is designed for students who have a basic knowledge of photography and its materials and an interest in the use of the photo image as part of a broad vocabulary of image-making processes. Students explore cyanotype, van dyke brown, gum bichromate printing, collage, reproduction, and transfer techniques, and are given a basic working knowledge of the graphic arts films and print films. Also covered: Polaroid materials, copy machines, computer graphics, and applied color. Ideas related to text, installation, and performance may also be explored. Each student is encouraged to experiment in both silver and non-silver processes and to conduct research independently.

Class Number

1351

Credits

3

Description

This course introduces black-and-white printing techniques including darkroom and inkjet printing, contrast control through development, the zone system, scale of images, graphic arts film, studio lighting, different darkroom techniques, alternative cameras, and different papers and films.

Class Number

1348

Credits

3

Description

This course introduces black-and-white printing techniques including darkroom and inkjet printing, contrast control through development, the zone system, scale of images, graphic arts film, studio lighting, different darkroom techniques, alternative cameras, and different papers and films.

Class Number

1807

Credits

3

Description

The class will address the photographic book. we will investigate the numerous styles and how it influences meaning. we will question the limits of books where photography will be the main emphasis. this is not a class that will be primarily on structure we will not be making books beyond the most basic level. the quality and traits of print on demand publishing and visit with local publishers and editors will be arranged. an integral component of the class will be the chicago artist book fair. we will almost live in the joan flash artist book collection. the main text will be the structure of the visual book by keith smith. among courses that would work well in conjunction are - sequencing and structure and artist books.

Class Number

1814

Credits

3