The photography area is an integral part of the department of Art & Art History on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We have served many undergraduate students majoring in a wide range of disciplines including film and media, biology, anthropology, political science and many others. We aim at fluency across media boundaries, both within and beyond the department. We also serve an especially large number of studio art students from the painting and combined media areas.
Mark Feldstein, a former student of Robert Motherwell, started the undergraduate photography area in the 1970s and later, Roy DeCarava introduced the subject to the MFA program. The photography area has continued to carry on the Art & Art History department’s tradition of hiring working artists who share their professional knowledge with students across a variety of disciplines. All full-time and adjunct faculty frequently exhibit and publish their work and are engaged with contemporary issues.
CLASSES
Principles of Photography
Advanced Photography
Alternative Photographic Processes
Digital Color Photography
FULL-TIME FACULTY
Reiner Leist, rleist@hunter.cuny.edu (Area Head)
STAFF
Daminico Lynch, htr-artphoto@hunter.cuny.edu (Area Manager)
Sijin (Jin) Tetenbaum, htr-artphoto@hunter.cuny.edu (Area Manager)
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Elinor Carucci, ELINOR.CARUCCI94@login.cuny.edu
Em Rooney, Emily.Rooney@Hunter.cuny.edu
Virgina Vergara, vvergar@hunter.cuny.edu
FACILITIES:
HN11001 (Darkroom) – click here for the calendar
HN11003 (Classroom)
HN11006 (Digital Lab) – click here for the calendar
HN11010 (Dry Area)
HN11014 (Film Processing)