University Open Air: A Brief History of Photography (Techniques & Genres)
In this course, first we will see a brief history of photography focused on some of the important techniques and genres (with a bias on French and Francophone photography). After discovering or rediscovering certain techniques used by famous photographers, we will explore the building, the terrace, and the plaza for photographs! Feel free to bring your own camera.
Nadia Bongo is a teaching artist and translator with a PhD in French Language and Literature. She has earned a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship. Her writing or photographs have appeared in Solstice, Litro online, Taos journal of Poetry, African Voices, The Citron Review, Blue Mesa Review, and elsewhere. In 2023, Nadia co-directed an experimental short film, Wandering In Beauty, supported by the University Open Air program presented by BPL. Find her at https://www.nadiabongo.com/
University Open Air is generously supported by The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund.
