====The Do’s and Don’ts of Graduate Studies: Maxims from the Chair====

"The Do’s and Don’ts of Graduate Studies: Maxims from the Chair, outlining the art and science of photography with prescriptive pragmatism, conceptual insight and a healthy dose of stern humor."

===The Do’s===

  * Do something old in a new way
  * Do something new in an old way
  * Do something new in a new way, Whatever works… works
  * Do it sharp, if you can’t, call it art
  * Do it in the computer — if it can be done there
  * Do fifty of them — you will definitely get a show
  * Do it big, if you cant do it big, do it red
  * If all else fails turn it upside down, if it looks good it might work
  * Do Bend your knees
  * If you don’t know what to do, look up or down — but continue looking
  * Do celebrities — if you do a lot of them, you’ll get a book
  * Connect with others — network
  * Edit it yourself
  * Design it yourself
  * Publish it yourself
  * Edit, When in doubt shoot more
  * Edit again
  * Read Darwin, Marx, Joyce, Freud, Einstein, Benjamin, McLuhan, and Barth
  * See Citizen Kane ten times
  * Look at everything — stare
  * Construct your images from the edge inward
  * If it’s the “real world,” do it in color
  * If it can be done digitally — do it
  * Be self centered, self involved, and generally entitled and always pushing — and damned to hell for doing it
  * Break all rules, except the chairman’s

===The Don’ts===

  * Don’t do it about yourself — or your friend — or your family
  * Don’t dare photograph yourself nude
  * Don’t look at old family albums
  * Don’t hand color it
  * Don’t write on it
  * Don’t use alternative process — if it ain’t straight do it in the computer
  * Don’t gild the lily — AKA less is more
  * Don’t go to video when you don’t know what else to do
  * Don’t photograph indigent, people, particularly in foreign lands
  * Don’t whine, just produce

from "The Education of a Photographer". Charles H. Traub, Steven Heller and Adam B. Bell