Undergraduate - UnitAHT2440 - Camera culture: From analogue to digital representation

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Organisational Unit	Department of Fine Art
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Ms Tamsin Green

Notes

This unit was formerly coded TAD2440

Synopsis

The unit will consider the ways in which the camera contributed to new ways of seeing in the nineteenth century. The unit will investigate the concept of analogue reproduction, especially photography's promise to represent the 'real' world, and consider practices in which the real is consistently manipulated. Photography will be considered across a range of disciplines: ethnographic and anthropological photographs; documentary photography; photography as a diagnostic tool in the world of medicine and the use of photography by the legal system. Finally, the unit will address the changes in the production and circulation of images evident in digital modes of reproduction.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students will have developed :

A broad knowledge of the multi-disciplinary nature of photography

Critical skills that enable them to analyse a broad range of photographic texts and contexts

An understanding of the critical and theoretical debates related to photography in society

An understanding of two different modes of reproduction: the analogue and the digital

An understanding of the ways in which technologies of reproduction change modes of representation

Assessment

Assignment 1,500 words (40%)
Research essay 2,500 words (60%)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr. Fiona Macdonald

Workload requirements

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours and 9 hours of independent study or equivalent

Prerequisites

12 credit points at first year level in Art history and theory, or Theory of Art and Design, Visual Culture or permission from Unit Coordinator.

Prohibitions

VSA2440, VSA3440, CLS2440, CLS3440, TAD3440, AHT3440