The Collaboration:

Students would act as field photographers and editors. Demonstrations were spread out over the term, but students were asked to produce only proof sheets until we decided in class critiques what would be done for the exhbition. The instructor and teaching assistant would co-edit the negatives and function much in the same way as a producers of a film - watching over a twelve week schedule, solving technical problems, and making suggestions to students for projects by providing feedback on proof sheets and technical deciisons.

There would be no curator of the exhibition, because selection of images and pairing images with technique would be done in class collaboratively. Ten students produced several poster prints, large liquid emulsion pieces, tiling projects and fiber prints in a small darkroom with only four enlargers, forcing a cooperative collaborative working situation. None of the work submitted was rejected from the show except that which individual students declined to exhibit for various personal reasons or preferences.

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