| CODE | DGA2020 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Applied Photography 2 | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will introduce students to the aesthetic, creative and technical issues as well as the visual messages, associated with the photographic encounter with the body. Through a series of workshops, students are enabled to develop their skills, techniques and handling of materials pertaining to the genre as well as the work of key photographers who have used the human form and whose work has come to define contemporary images and understanding of fashion and the body. In the second part, students will explore work within two key photographic fields: Architecture and Landscape photography. This will enable students to explore context, identity and history of place through photography. Students will be required to produce a body of work within these fields as an aid to understanding, preplanning, directing and working within a professional context in both artistic and industry related contexts. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit in Applied Photography is divided into two parts, the first part tackles Fashion Photography and the second part explores Travel, Architecture and Landscape Photography. The study-unit will be divided into two time periods 鈥� 7 weeks for the first topic and 7 weeks for the second topic. The course will be conducted through the following route: History, Technique, Aesthetics and Practice. The two genres will be approached from a theoretical and practical route concurrently, training students to research the historical and the contextual, while applying technical skills and honing their aesthetic decision-making in order to produce their own body of work. Lectures will revolve around the genres鈥� histories, their aesthetics and their relation to contemporary Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - critically apply theory to photography, contextualising own practice in relation to historic and contemporary practices; - work independently and self-reflexively, demonstrating awareness of the applications of one鈥檚 practice in a range of different genres in photography; - creatively apply a wide range of analogue and digital photography approaches and techniques in both artistic as well as commercial settings. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - demonstrate skills leading to employability in photography and its related industries; - conduct sustained research into photography and its related applications and contexts, through a process of creative experimentation, conceptual rigour and critical analysis. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Badger, G (2007) The Genius of Photography. UK. Quadrille Publishing Ltd. - Bright, S (2010) Auto Focus. London: Thames and Hudson. - Jaeger, A (2007) Image makers image takers. London: Thames and Hudson - Bright, S (2007) Face of Fashion. London: National Portrait Gallery. - Cotton, C (2004) The Photograph as Contemporary Art. London: Thames and Hudson. - Herzog, H (1994) The Body. Switzerland: Edition Stemmle. - Liesbrock, H (2000) How you look at it. New York: Art Publishers Inc. - Spencer-Wood, S (2005) Family. London: Phaidon. - Townsend, C (1998) Vile Bodies - Photography and the鈥–risis of Looking. Munich. NY: Prestel Verlag. - Bate, D. (2016). Photography: The Key Concepts. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: DGA2019 - Applied Photography 1 | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Tutorial and Project | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Bernard Polidano |
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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 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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