CHAPTER TWO

ASSIGNMENTS CONFIDENTIAL: EDUCATORS SHARE

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THESE DAYS, photography students don’t need a formal classroom to learn aesthetics and technique because technical information is available online. A simple Google search of the phrase “photography tutorial” yields sixty-nine million results. The value of a formal photographic education lies in its ability to teach students aesthetics, how to deconstruct an image and to critically and skeptically evaluate a photograph. A photography education teaches students to make images by understanding where to point the camera, how to order visual chaos, and what ...

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