Introduction to Digital Photography (PHT-0111)

Spring 2026 · PHT 0111 · Tufts University · 4 credits · Undergraduate

Introduces technique and theory of digital image making. Introduces students to digital cameras and flatbed scanners for image capture, computer programs such as Lightroom and Photoshop for image flow and processing, and archival digital printers for print output. Assignments, lectures, readings and demonstrations create a forum to discuss picture making, and its role in personal and cultural terms, in an age where the photograph has become ubiquitous. Engagement with histories of art and photography provides a platform to consider how photographs are produced, circulated, duplicated and situated in social, political, cultural and economic contexts of the moment. How do we produce unique images, influenced by our own investigations within todays context? Level: Beginning level. Non-SMFA students and MAT Art Education students will receive a letter grade.

Course codes: PHT-0111, PHT 0111, PHT0111, PHT-111, PHT 111, PHT111

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