Free College Courses on Photography

[bmattock]

I keep forgetting to mention this. As an autodidact, I always look for new ways to learn and new channels of information as they become available. I have known about this for awhile, but I am sorry, I keep forgetting it. So while I'm still thinking about it:

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/home.html

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

There are a lot of free college-level courses available. They're real college classes, and the materials are free as well (not the books, but multimedia presentations, lecture notes, etc, etc) and you can take them self-paced and online as much or as little as you want. That would include a lot of courses on various aspects of photography and related topics:

OCW Course Finder: Photography (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_coursefinder&Itemid=166&q=photography&l=&s=&uss=1&b.x=50&b.y=9&b=search)

Anyway, just passing it along. I have no pecuniary or other interest in MIT or the other universities that offer free online college courses.

[BillBingham2]

Very cool. Have to look at it tonight.

B2 (;->

[bmattock]

Here's a really nice one:

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1297

[martin s]

Thanks a lot!

martin

[dave lackey]

I keep forgetting to mention this. As an autodidact, I always look for new ways to learn and new channels of information as they become available. I have known about this for awhile, but I am sorry, I keep forgetting it. So while I'm still thinking about it:

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/home.html

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

There are a lot of free college-level courses available. They're real college classes, and the materials are free as well (not the books, but multimedia presentations, lecture notes, etc, etc) and you can take them self-paced and online as much or as little as you want. That would include a lot of courses on various aspects of photography and related topics:

OCW Course Finder: Photography (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_coursefinder&Itemid=166&q=photography&l=&s=&uss=1&b.x=50&b.y=9&b=search)

Anyway, just passing it along. I have no pecuniary or other interest in MIT or the other universities that offer free online college courses.

Bill,

This is very cool...thanks so much for the information!:cool:

[hamradio]

Wow, very cool. Thanks for the link!

[JohnTF]

Good stuff, thanks, John

[sanmich]

Very cool, Bill, thanks!

Now, I want to propose something:
why don't a few of interested RFFers take a course together, and discuss it on RFF, lesson after lesson?

[eli griggs]

Sounds good to me Michael. I suppose we need to look around and make a short list of course to select from.

Eli

[raid]

RFF's Top 3 Choices:

1. nude figure photography
2. nude women photography
3. nude anything photography

[sojournerphoto]

RFF's Top 3 Choices:

1. nude figure photography
2. nude women photography
3. nude anything photography


0. nude camera photography

[bmattock]

0. nude camera photography

Combining this with my thread about Google Books:

The Photographic Times and American Photographer, published in 1888 (http://www.google.com/books?id=i7UaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA560&dq=%22nude+photography%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=1990&as_maxm_is=7&as_maxy_is=2009&as_brr=1&as_pt=BOOKS&ei=MrOBSsjPKo6ENK74iOgK#v=onepage&q=%22nude%20photography%22&f=false)

As To Nude Photography.—Max Platz says that every once in awhile he reads in the papers that certain society women and fashionable young women allow nude photographs to be made of them—or, more correctly speaking, allow photographers to make pictures of them nude. Not unfrequently we see in our exchanges that these morbid practices are indulged in older cities, particularly in Boston, which is accounted as the most brazenly immoral city on this continent. Still, it is doubtful whether the practice does exist anywhere in this country among those who are not professionally disreputable. Mr. Platz says that he has been a practical photographer in Chicago for twenty years, and in all that time he has never but once been asked to photograph the nude figure ; that single request came from an artist who wished a picture of his model in order that his work in hand might be facilitated. Invariably models, however willing they may be to disrobe for the sculptor and the painter, refuse to denude their figures for the camera. The proposition that society women so far disobey the instincts of modesty, and so far put themselves at the mercy of the photographer as to strip and pose before the camera—this is sheer nonsense.

" Reporters have asked me about this," said Mr. Platz, "and I have always told them how absurd the proposition was. Yet I notice that, ready as the papers are to print extravagant tales of this character, they are slow to print what reputable photographers tell them to the contrary. There is not an established photographer in Chicago who will not bear me out in it when I say that all our professional dealings with women have been and are characterized, first of all, by the strictest modesty and most rigid decorum."—Chicago News