Exploring the Brooklyn Waterfront, North to South

Students in this class look to classic photobooks—Robert Frank’s The Americans, Gordon Parks’s American Gothic, Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York—to inspire their own investigations of current American societal struggles as seen through the infrastructure, streetscape, and people of New York City. We discuss these books in tandem with the current ICP Museum exhibition and photograph together in the East Village and Lower East Side, seeking out these themes of the times as seen in the physicality of the city streets. Participants finish the course with a new portfolio of work and their own book mock-up in Adobe Lightroom.

Course Level / Prerequisite: Open to all skill levels. Students ranging from beginner to experienced will be successful in classes that are Open to All Skill Levels.

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