W. Eugene Smith's "Country Doctor"

Here are a few selections from W. Eugene Smith's landmark photo essay, "Country Doctor", first published in Life Magazine in 1948. Smith spent 23 days with rural  Dr. Ernest Ceriani. Smith's photo essay remains an powerful example of documentary photography, seemingly very simple in scope but giving the viewer an as-then-unprecedented intimate view into the daily life of a general practitioner.

You can see the entire photo essay here.

Katrina d'Autremont

This last week our visiting artist was Katrina d'Autremont. Please click here to see more of her work!

Photoshop Tutorials

Hi everyone!

Here are the basic tutorial videos to watch before our next class. We will be covering the stuff covered in these videos in greater detail next week, but this will help familiarize you with the tools and concepts beforehand. Some of the things covered will become much more clear when we start working with the program, so be sure to make note of any questions that you have and bring them to class next week.

Photoshop Basic Tools:

Camera Raw Workflow:

Composition

In case you'd like a refresher, here is a short overview of the 10 "rules" of composition:
http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/10-top-photography-composition-rules

Week 2 -- Street Photography

Want to see more images by the photographers that we discussed in class this week? Here are links to their work:

Eugene Atget

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Robert Frank

Diane Arbus

Garry Winogrand

Vivian Maier

Daido Moriyama

Bruce Davidson

Zoe Strauss

Are there other street photographers that inspire you? Tell us about them in the comments or share their work on your blog!

Spring 2014 Blog Roll

Hi everybody--

This is the class blog roll for the semester.  I'll update the list as the links come in!

Nazifa Ahmed:
nazifa25.blogspot.com

Natalee Bass:
http://chinasisterblog.wordpress.com/

Phillip Flanagan:

http://flanaganphillip.wordpress.com/

Sean Kennedy:
http://seankennedy1.blogspot.com/

Max Kraidelman:

http://maxsview.weebly.com/ 

Paul McLaren:

http://paulmclarenphotography.wordpress.com/

http://paulmclaren.tumblr.com/

Matt McWha:

mattmcwha.blogspot.com

Sasha Miasnikova:

http://smiasnikova.wordpress.com/

Lucy Simon:

http://lucysimonphotography.wordpress.com/

Yu-Lin Tay:

https://yulintphotography.wordpress.com/

Diana Vivar:

http://dvimages.blogspot.com/

Liya Wu: 
http://liyajade.wordpress.com

Welcome to the PCAC Digital Photo Blog, Spring 2014!

Happy Spring! Welcome to the PCAC Digital Photo Class Blog. This is where I'll be posting news about the class, links to homework and any other interesting things that I find. Please feel free to send me anything that you would like to see posted here.

The above photograph is by Philadelphia-based photographer Zoe Strauss. I'll be talking more about her in the coming weeks, but if you would like to take a sneak peek, you can find more about her here.