http://www.academia.edu/528410/Towards_Photographic_Education

Daniel Rubenstein: Towards Photographic Education

"The tasks that photography education is committed to, those of teaching how to make photographs and how to interpret them, never seemed more redundant and obsolete than in the present moment" (Rubenstein, D 2009, p135)

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Take a portrait of someone wearing a box camera obscura in the studio. The futility of the exercise due to the lack of light. No success. Head hung low. A failure to impress.

The classroom was turned into a camera obscura based on Abel Morrell's segment in 'The Genius of Photography. One student noted that Abel was filtering light bouncing off the buildings of Venice, whereas we saw - faintly reproduced on the wall and ceilings - 70s concrete.

How does a certain disenfranchisement manifest itself within the student body? What about the technical and academic staff? Jealousy and competitiveness contradicts apathy.

The darkroom

The darkroom is where many people have been drawn into the wonder of photography. Now, it is just as often met with a shrug.