Photography - San Francisco Art Institute

Photography from San Francisco Art Institute is a Campus Bachelor Photography degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. Balancing the study of the history of photography with an inquiry into its future, SFAI?s program emphasizes the complexity and possibilities of this evolving medium. Established in 1945 by Ansel Adams and Minor White, SFAI?s Photography Department was the first in the country dedicated to photography as a fine art, and has a legacy of engagement with environmental and societal conditions. The early faculty included such influential artists as Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, John Collier Jr., Imogen Cunningham, and Pirkle Jones. Among our alumni are Ralph Gibson, Annie Leibovitz, Larry Sultan, and Catherine Opie. Guided by dedicated faculty, students at SFAI explore photography?s potential on aesthetic, technical, and conceptual levels, revealing the subjective undercurrent of the ?reality? that a camera captures. Working with both analog and digital processes, students focus on strategies such as documentary, the narrative, and experimental image-making to refine their reasoning. Many students also cross the boundary of still photography into the moving image, text, and book arts. Whether images emanate from a traditional darkroom or software, the curriculum develops the skills and insights necessary for visual communication, critical evaluation, and individual expression. The on-campus Prentice and Paul Sack Stillights Gallery and the Diego Rivera Gallery provide photography students with opportunities to display their work. The Bay Area offers many resources to enhance a photographer?s practice: SFMOMA, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, The Pilara Collection, the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection, and the California Historical Society have extensive photographic holdings, and a large number of galleries exclusively show photo-based work. The organization Photo Alliance also programs a lecture series that brings nationally known photographers to San Francisco. View more details on San Francisco Art Institute . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Photography courses.