The best geographic photography university in the world.

In China: Beijing Film Academy (the best).

Global?

The United States has the largest photography society and market in the world, and the professional campaign of this scale is directly related to the most developed photography education system in the world. The role of photography education, on the one hand, can improve the quality of photography culture and photography scholarship, on the other hand, it can expand the amount of photography dissemination and popularization. When the above links enter a virtuous circle with each other, a large-scale photographic weather can be formed.

The characteristics of American photography education, like its cultural form, are quite diversified. With the rapid development of China's photography education, how to learn from important external photography education methods should be very beneficial to our own development.

School of photography

Strictly speaking, only the Brooks Photography Institute in Santa Barbara, a Pacific coastal city in California. The courses of this specialized photography institute cover almost all areas involving photography, including still photography and dynamic photography (movies and videos). Its educational purposes are also comprehensive, including art, documentaries, news reports and business.

Because of the increasing influence of digital technology in the new century, photography and images are closely related, and because of the wide application of photographic images in modern art in the form of multimedia, images and traditional art and design have been integrated into the broad category of "visual art".

School of visual arts (SVA), located in New York State, the capital of modern art in the world, can be classified as a college of imaging specialty in a broad sense by integrating various visual modes. Its teaching purpose is to "create artists", so the teaching focuses on the avant-garde form of multimedia visual art and downplays commercial elements. Adhere to the teaching goal of stimulating students' artistic talent to meet the social demand for excellent creative things. School of visual arts's art education thought, based on learning from the real world, naturally takes the real world as its content and cooperates with flexible induction methods to stimulate students' creativity. The artistic concept advocated by our school is: "Art is not only for self-exile, but also for giving something to the world. The greater significance of art is as an integral part of culture."

New york Rochester Institute of Technology, mainly focusing on photography. 1930 established the first photography department of university education, which takes into account both practical and artistic photography and has the only photo and film restoration specialty in the world. Located in the headquarters of Kodak Company, relying on the Heasman International Photography Museum and Kodak Company's factory, this university is an old-fashioned photography research base in the United States and a typical example of a comprehensive photography culture society in the United States.

In addition, the New York Institute of Photography is a successful model of correspondence education in the United States. It embodies the characteristics of openness and popularization of American education. All interested scholars, regardless of age, gender and occupation, have a variety of teaching courses and institutions from professional to amateur to serve them. The educational space for arranging study according to personal wishes and specific conditions is quite broad, which is a very reasonable and thoughtful place for American education and photography education.

Art photography department

The photography departments of comprehensive universities, which are famous for their photography art and academics, include those of the University of Florida and the University of New Mexico. The photography departments of these two universities have made it clear that their teaching purpose is to take photography art and scholarship as the purpose.

The head of the Department of Photography at the University of Florida is Jerry Youseman, a photographer who is famous for taking surreal photos with intensive skills. A famous professor set up a famous department to train photographers, which is the characteristic of American university departments.

The photography department of the University of New Mexico is famous for its famous American photographers. The most famous is John Sakowski, who once led the academic trend of American photography history and photography academia. He once served as the research director of new york Museum of Modern Art and Seamans International Photography Museum, and later took charge of the research and teaching of the photography department of the University of New Mexico, and trained a group of key scholars for the American photography academic community.

The Art School of Yale University, a world-renowned university, is the top art department in American comprehensive universities, and it is well-known in the academic field. Its graduates not only become professional artists, but also send high-quality teachers to art colleges.

The School of Design of the Department of Commercial Photography belongs to the practical commercial nature of American university education.

Art center college of design in the west of Los Angeles and Rhode Island School of Design in the east of Rhode Island are two famous departments of the School of Design. Many famous American and even internationally renowned professional photographers were born here. Art center college of design's teaching aim is to cultivate students with unique personality. The teaching creed is: "Insist on the teaching policy of two-way coordination between training and education, so that the change mode of the course is not based on the existing actual situation, but more focused on the actual situation that will appear." The only purpose of technology is to serve communication. Students need to make full technical preparations during school and know what tools to use to achieve the purpose of expressing their works. "

A photography department with both art and business.

The famous Academy of Fine Arts was renamed as New Century Academy of Fine Arts University. The school was founded in 1929, and the photography department is an old-fashioned department. Now it belongs to a comprehensive art college, and its photography department has both artistic and commercial teaching attributes.

There is also the same type of photography department in art institute of chicago (a school in art institute of chicago). In the early days, photographer laszlo Moholi Nagy was taught by the German Bauhaus design concept, which brought out the "Chicago School" in American photography history.

As an important photojournalism major, the Department of Journalism and Documentary Photography is often associated with the famous journalism department. For example, the journalism department of the University of Missouri in the central United States and the journalism department of Syracuse University in new york in the eastern United States are both famous departments.

Duke University in the central United States has a professional degree course in documentary photography. The purpose of teaching is to cultivate all-round documentary photographers with full set of professional skills such as thematic planning, real shooting, writing, publishing and printing.

As a perfect professional photography institute, California Brooks Photography Institute also offers professional courses and degrees in news reporting and documentary.