在第二堂课之前，你必须选择一个地点，作为三项摄影作业和期末影像文章的主题。你所选择的地点可以是波士顿地区的任何地方，一个你整学期下来可以不断拜访并吸引你的地方。你也可以选择你的工作室，或者你在其它课程里研究的地方。地点的大小须有限制（整个Roxbury地区太大了）。划定地点范围大小时，思考一下划定原则，这也许会是解读地点特性的关键，或者至少是表达你要着重表现之特质的关键。
By session #2, you must choose a site that will be the subject of three photographic assignments and a final essay of images and words. Your site can be anywhere within the Boston region. It should be a place you can visit regularly throughout the semester, a place that intrigues you. It can be your studio site or a place you are studying for another course. Limit the size of the site (all of Roxbury is too big). Thinking about the rationale for bounding the site may be key to deciphering its identity or at least those attributes that you want to focus on.

所有的作业上交期限、日期于以下说明。迟交的专题将扣分。由于作业与作业之间是相辅相成的，而且是课堂讨论的基础，因此跟上作业进度是重要的。若无预先取得书面同意，不予延期。
All assignments are due at times and dates indicated below. Late projects will receive a reduction in grade. It is very important to keep up with the assignments, for they build on one another and form a basis for class discussion. There will be no extensions without prior, written, consent.

地点选择
Site Selection

于第二堂课上交。请描述地点所在，地点为什么有趣？为什么吸引你？该地点引发出什么样的疑问？你希望如何以摄影方式去探讨该地点的哪一方面？
Due by session #2. Please describe where it is and why it is interesting, why you are drawn to it. What questions does the place raise, what of it do you hope to explore photographically?

作业一：灯光
Assignment 1: Light

于第四堂课上交。
Due in class, session #4.

拍摄你的地点时，加入考虑灯光因素。尤其是那些对于你的地点而言有特殊影响的灯光因素，以及对某日、某时、天气和季节来说，也有特殊影响的灯光因素。选择在不同的时刻、不同的日期拍摄照片。
Photograph your site with respect to qualities of light, especially aspects of light that are particular to your site, as well as to time of day, weather, and season. Take photographs at different times of day on different days.

好好规划时间，以免你无法及时在上课前冲洗好幻灯片并携带至课堂。请使用能够隔夜即冲洗完毕的彩色幻灯底片，如柯达Ektachrom或是富士牌。你也可以使用数码相机。
Plan your time so that you have a roll of slide film developed in time for class. Use color slide film that can be processed overnight, such as Kodak Ektachrome or Fuji. You may also use a digital camera.

选出并携带六张照片以供课堂投影与讨论。请务必提早到，好在上课前将你的照片存至计算机，或者将你的幻灯片放入投影机。如果无法早到，务必请其他人于课前载入图片。
Select 6 images for projection and discussion during class and bring them with you. Please come a few minutes early in order to load your images on the computer or put your slides in the carousel before class. If you cannot come early, make arrangements for someone else to load your images before class.

开始建立你的网站。把这一项以及接下来的“重要细节”和“诗意”的作业，划成独立的部份，并考虑放入你日志里的文字段落。
Begin to develop your website. Create separate sections for this and subsequent assignments on Significant Detail and Poetics. Consider including passages from your journals.

作业二：重要细节
Assignment 2: Significant Detail

于第八堂课上交
Due in class, session #8.

有力且显著的细节表示了：流走在多岩荒芜矿脉上的黑色光影，勾勒出久旱甘霖后留下的临时瀑布群，并指向一座难民营。森林里一间修道院大门口的石头，在千百次的触摸下而光亮，显示出敬重。伟大的艺术家善于生动地描述细节。汉斯?霍尔班（Hans Holbein）的一张神射手素描主要显现出他的脸，一只眼睛紧闭，另一只眼顺着十字弓瞄准。那只眯起来瞄准的眼睛是整幅画里笔触最重、描绘最仔细的地方。其余的部分则是轻描淡写，有如失焦一般。好的摄影师也是细心的观察者。他们懂得如何取景、如何且该将什么放进焦点来突显重大细节。桃乐丝?兰格（Dorothea Lange）持续将她在某处随笔写下的重要细节记录在日志上：一座乡间教堂院子的公亩数、院子里的水木扫帚拂过光秃的土地、教区居民自家做的手套（见于《美国乡村女性》）。细节展现了重要的事实，这是和风景科学研究相关、和建筑与诗意相关的思想。不论是在医药方面或是风景方面，物理诊断都是将重要细项从不相关的细节中筛选出来的一种艺术。
Telling details signify: black streaks streaming down a rocky, desert outcrop trace ephemeral waterfalls from rare rains, point to a refuge; a stone at the gateway to a forest sanctuary, polished by thousands of touches, reveals reverence. Great artists use detail tellingly. Hans Holbein's sketch of a marksman shows mainly his face, the one eye closed, the other sighting down the crossbow. The squinting, sighting eye is the darkest, most detailed part of the drawing; the rest is drawn lightly, roughly, as if out of focus. Good photographers are close observers; they choose what to frame, how, and what to place in sharpest focus in order to highlight significant detail. Dorothea Lange kept journals where she jotted the telling details she recorded in photographs: a country churchyard's acre, its bare soil swept with dogwood brooms, the parishioner's hand-made gloves (The American Country Woman). Details reveal important truths, an idea as relevant to the scientific study of landscape, to architecture and poetry, as it is to photography. Physical diagnosis, in medicine, in landscape, is the art of culling the significant from a welter of irrelevant detail.

拍下所选地方的重要细节，这些细节提供选择地点特性的线索，而且能具体显现或能牵引出更多故事。
Photograph significant details of your site, details that are clues to your site's particular character and that embody or refer to larger stories.

挑选出六张幻灯片并携带至课堂，供课堂投影以及讨论。请务必提早几分钟到，好在上课前将你的照片载入计算机，或者将你的幻灯片放入投影机。
Select 6 slides for projection and discussion during class and bring them with you to class. Please come a few minutes early in order to load your images on the computer or put your slides in the carousel before class.

作业三：诗意
Assignment 3: Poetics

于第十一堂课上交
Due in class, session #11.

风景是寓意深长且表情丰富的。风景可以是诗意的、华丽夸张的、争议的，同时也可以是务实的。风景寓意非常复杂且模棱两可，带有多层意义，永远不会是简单或线性的。河川流动的同时可能提供、创造或毁灭一条路径，一条界线，甚至一条出入通道。火在毁损、改变的同时也重新创造。一个圆是分级的，因为它有一个中心，然而也是不分级的，因为在圆周上的任何一点到圆心的距离都相等。多重意涵就是隐喻也是其它譬喻的来源。隐喻和讽刺能够并列两种意涵：和谐、对比或冲突。修辞比喻很少从风景中被独立出来；不论是被合并、重叠或是并列，修辞比喻皆能够产生呼应、实时映照的效果，并赋予意涵。
Landscape is meaningful and expressive; it can be poetic, rhetorical, polemical, as well as pragmatic. Landscape meaning is complex, layered, ambiguous, never simple or linear. A river flows, provides, creates, destroys, simultaneously a path and a boundary, even a gateway. Fire consumes, transforms, and renews. A circle is hierarchical--it has a center--yet non-hierarchical--all points along the circumference are equidistant from the center. Multiple meanings are the source of metaphor and other tropes, as well. Metaphor and irony juxtapose meanings: harmonious, contrasting, or conflicting. Figures of speech are rarely isolated in landscape; combined, overlapped, juxtaposed, they introduce correspondences, prompt reflection, invite investment of meaning.

重新走访你的选择地点，并从课堂读物所提供的观点，细思该地点之“风景诗意”。以修辞表现的角度——你自己的表现方式和那些居住在或者使用该地点的人们含蓄且固有的表现方式来拍摄你的地点。从这个主题出发，再去重新审视你已经拍好的幻灯片。这是期末专题前的最后一项作业，你所撰写的影像文章必须能够表达出你所选择地点的特质，能够诠释该地点的特质且讲述其故事。开始决定你所想要说的故事，并且善加利用此次作业来提升你的思想。
Revisit and reflect on your site in light of the readings for the class on "Landscape Poetics." Photograph your site from the perspective of rhetorical expression, both your own and the implied and implicit expression of those who live in or use the site. Review the slides you have already taken in light of this topic. This is the last assignment before the final project, the essay of images and words you will create to express the particular qualities of your site, to interpret its character, to tell its story(ies). Begin to identify the stories you want to tell and use this assignment to advance your thinking.

挑选出六张幻灯片并携带至课堂，供课堂投影以及讨论。为每一张幻灯片命名。将图片按照顺序编排，让所有的独立图像构成对话。请务必提早几分钟到，好在上课前载入你的网站，或者将你的幻灯片放入投影机。
Select 6 images for projection and discussion during class and bring them with you. Give each image a title. Put them in a sequence that makes that brings the individual images into dialogue. Please come a few minutes early in order to load your website or put your slides in the carousel before class.

持续发展你的网站，把灯光作业、重要细节作业和诗意作业做成独立的部份（即使同一张图片可能出现在两个不同的分类下）。你也许会想引述日志里的段落。
Continue to develop your website, with separate sections for the assignment on Light, Significant Detail, and Poetics (though some images may serve in both categories). You may wish to include passages from your journals.

期末作业：文章
Final Assignment: Essay

文章的拍摄记事草稿于第十二堂课的学生个别面谈时上交。风景故事草稿于第十三堂课课堂上交。第十四堂课学生个别面谈前，网络影像文章草稿应上传完毕，以方便面谈时讨论。期末影像文章于第十五堂前上传完毕。
Storyboard draft of essay due at conferences with individual students, session #12. Narrative sketch problem due in class, session #13. Draft of website essay due online for conferences with individual students, session #14. Final Photo Essay due online, session #15.