Savannah College of Art and Design
There are various degree programs such as B.F.A. and M.A. that can be obtained at SCAD. Students can also receive a M.F.A. degree in photography with a M.A. degree in commercial photography, digital photography and documentary photography, at both SCAD-Savannah and SCAD-Atlanta. Each offers a B.A. in visual communication focusing on photography. Students can opt for their M.A. in Digital photography through online courses at SCAD-eLearning.
Photographers produce unique images of reality or formal abstractions through their use and manipulation of cameras and film. The course of study for a student of photography is as follows:
- Equipment and Techniques
- Camera Vision
- Digital Photographic Methods
- Black-and White, Color, and Other Processes
- Lighting Techniques for Studio and Location Shots
Photography facilities and resources available:
- Group and individual black-and-white darkrooms
- Individual color darkrooms
- Graduate darkrooms
- Macintosh digital imaging and printing labs with extensive peripherals
- Wide format inkjet printers
- Durst Theta printer
- Imacon scanners
- Professional RA-4 color print processing machine
- E-6 and C-41 color film processing machines
- Alternative processes lab and studios
- Lighting equipment
- View camera systems
- Digital backs
- Digital and film medium-format camera systems
- Digital SLR systems
Illustrations of works by important contemporary photographers such as Mathew Brady, Nadar, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and other masters are contained in the SCAD Museum of Art.
