Class Analogue Photography and Black and White Lab I

Through a hands-on approach, the students are introduced to the tools, the equipment, the workings of the photographic process, and silver gelatin materials. From the very first session, students are contaminated with creative work and encouraged to reinterpret and create a series of images that function as a body of work. Discourse and technique are stimulated throughout the proposed exercises, culminating in the creation of a body of work consisting of a series of images printed on silver gelatin paper.

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Chemigrams - Introduction to working materials, working solutions and their action on gelatine and silver emulsions; Photograms - Presentation of the enlarger: diffuse light enlargers and condensed light enlargers; Photosensitivity, intensity of the light source and distance from the photosensitive supports (inverse square law); Camera controls - Interaction: sensitivity, aperture and speeds.  Development of gelatine and silver films - Composition of chemical solutions and the action of their constituents, preparation of solutions, technical data sheets and material safety data sheets; Contact tests Enlargement - Exposure and contrast control; Split filtering; Photographic effects - Practicing the Sabattier effect; Filters used in PB capture. Final assignment - Production of a body of work on a topic of the student's choice.

Implementation of small strategies aimed at stimulating curiosity, sharing, stimulation of the potential for extraversion inherent in a deeper understanding of how media work, for example: Chimigram exercise (introduction to materials and processing solutions) - in the first lesson each student is invited to contribute a creative reference that will be reinterpreted by a colleague, after a draw, the students are asked to exchange ideas with the author of the reference and to share the reason for their reference with the colleague who received it; Photographic effects and the avant-garde - The discursive potential of manipulation and "error". Filter exercise - responsibility towards the collective: all students are invited to build and are responsible for contributing an object to the final composition. Various materials are made available for use in creating the proposed exercises.

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