Back in the 1970s Art Colleges for the purpose of learning photography was very different from today.

Photography was a vocational course which mean’t you had a basic understanding of photogaphy.

Photogaphy is divided into two parts, Artistic and Techinical.  To get the disired effect you  needed to study both Artistic and Technical.

The course used to run for three years and you would receive instructions from lecturers.  From an artistic point of view, lecturers would instruct students on how to draw in still.  The purpose of this was to teach about shapes etc so they could learn how to arrange shapes etc to enable photographs to be more pleasing to the eye.

Lecturers who were professional graphic designers who taught you how to work from rough layouts, mockups of how they thought an advert should appear in a magazine.  They would also instruct students to take photographs of certain sizes and topics for class discussions.

Proffesional photographers would teach the technical size of photography to include properties and usage of different lenses, cameras, films, lighting and processing.

 At the end of the course, students would be competent photographers and be ready to go out into the world to earn their living.