| CODE | DGA1009 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Introduction to Photography | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit introduces students to the study and practice of photography in the context of contemporary art practice. The programme will present directed project briefs supported by technical workshops. The study programme requires the students to research and familiarize themselves with the various elements and genres of photography through both a historical and contemporary analysis and contextual knowledge. Projects will develop from themes including: the archive, the staged image, photography and the institution, issues of representation, vernacular photography, contexts and audience. Study-unit Aims: - Acquire the required skills to create work with both film-based and digital photography; - Encourage students to look at photography within the arena of contemporary art; - Achieve a sound knowledge to enable critical debate with an informed personal position. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be: - familiar with both film-based and digital photography; - familiar with the various concepts of contemporary photography; - familiar with significance of the materiality of the photograph itself. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - research, present and communicate ideas through photographic practice, showing a broad technical competence and good development of ideas; - contextualize and critically evaluate photographic practices with relevant cultural contexts and theoretical frameworks; - gain practice with documenting and recording ideas in the form of an ongoing reflective journal as a space for development of methodology. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Badger, G. (2014). The genius of photography: How photography has changed our lives. - Barthes, R. (2012). Camera lucida: Reflections on photography. New York: The Noonday Press. - Bate, D. (2016). Photography: The key concepts. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. - Berger, J. (1972). Ways of Seeing. - Clarke, G. (1997). The photograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Cotton, C. (2015). The photograph as contemporary art. London: Thames & Hudson. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lectures and Studio Practice | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Therese Debono |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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