From: Tox Gunn (tox@remarque.org)
Date: 01/29/01-05:57:49 PM Z
Polaroid type 55, contact printed onto cyanotype (sunprint) paper?
Expensive per shot, but all you need are several buckets of water.
As a broke college student w/o darkroom, used to do (admittedly
mediocre) 35mm proof sheets w/ sunprint paper.
Side note: when you're jonesing for a darkroom fix, it is
possible to strap a flash to the back of an old Argus, mount it
on a tripod and print w/ 1/20000 sec exposures. Not my best
work, but at the time, that wasn't the point..;)
Hm. Brick of disposable cameras and a helpful photolab looking
for advertising and a tax writeoff?
I'd be curious to hear what you decide to do - I occassionally
get the idea to do something as a party, try to hook everyone
in the magic of watching an image in the soup.
Tox
> Hello you all knowing listers,
>
> This is a bit off topic, but since there are so many educators on the list,
> somebody might be able to help. Off-list
> replies a preferred. I can assemble all the responses if anyone is
> interested in them, let me know.
>
> During the summer, I teach an introductory photography class at a college
> with no darkrooms and no photo dept
> and little access to digital equipment like film scanners. Many of the
> students are engineer and graphic and
> industrial design majors It is two hours, twice a week for 12 weeks, a
> total of 48 hours teaching time.
>
> We do go to a communty darkroom (4 hrs each, color and black and white),
> look at slides which cover some of the
> history of photography, discuss camera use, watch a few videos on
> photographers, have about 5 'photographing'
> (either slides or contacts are made from C41) assignments and a short (4-6
> page) paper on a photographer. We see
> shows when there are any to see and a couple of my classmates come in to
> guest lecture.
>
> However, I rack my brain trying to fill the time!!! Does anyone have ideas
> for 'fun' photo activities which are somewhat
> cheap, educational and would not require a darkroom? Thanks!
>
> Valerie
>
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