| CODE | DGA1024 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Introduction to Photography | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit introduces students to the study and practice of photography in the context of contemporary art practices. This blends the theoretical and practical aspects of photography delivered through lectures and directed practical workshops. The study programme requires the students to research and familiarize themselves with the various elements and genres of photography through a contextualised historical and contemporary analysis of photography. Projects will develop from themes including: the archive, the staged image, issues of representation and the vernacular and the institutional. These themes will be explored in relation to the various audiences of the photographic image. Study-Unit Aims: This aim of this study-unit is for learners to acquire the required skills to create photographic work with both film-based and digital photography. This unit encourages learners to look at photography within the area of contemporary art thus enabling them to critically debate from an informed and well researched personal position. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Outline various techniques used in historical and in contemporary photography; - Demonstrate knowledge of various concepts used in contemporary photography; - Recognise the significance of the materiality of the photograph. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Produce a digital journal to document and record ideas in the form of an ongoing reflective journal as a space for development of methodology; - Generate good development of ideas backed with photographic context and critical evaluation; - Produce a photographic project that merges the practical with the theoretical practice of photography showing broad technical competence. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Badger, G. (2014). The genius of photography: How photography has changed our lives. Quadrille Publishing. - Cotton, C. (2015). The photograph as contemporary art. London: Thames & Hudson. - Bate, D. (2016). Photography: The key concepts. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. Supplementary Readings: - Barthes, R. (2012). Camera Lucida: Reflections on photography. New York: The Noonday Press. - Berger, J. (1972). Ways of Seeing. Penguin Books. - Clarke, G. (1997). The photograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Project | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Therese Debono |
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