units
AHT2440
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
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Level | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture |
Organisational Unit | Department of Fine Art |
Offered | Not offered in 2015 |
Coordinator(s) | Ms Tamsin Green |
Notes
This unit was formerly coded TAD2440
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.
Upon successful completion of this unit students will have developed :
Assignment 1,500 words (40%)
Research essay 2,500 words (60%)
12 hours per week including 3 contact hours and 9 hours of independent study or equivalent
See also Unit timetable information
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.
VSA2440, VSA3440, CLS2440, CLS3440, TAD3440, AHT3440