Module Information
- Professor Christiana Payne (Professor - Oxford Brookes University)
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Lecture | 11 x 2 Hour Lectures |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 3,500 words essay Essay (with list ‘Works Cited’ comprising 15 secondary sources related to/relevant for the critical essay) | 50% |
Semester Exam | 2 Hours 2 hour exam Essay (3,000 words) | 50% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resit essay Essay (with list ‘Works Cited’ comprising 15 secondary sources related to/relevant for the critical essay) | 50% |
Supplementary Exam | 2 Hours Resit exam | 50% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1) identify major movements in 19th and early 20th century photography;
2) demonstrate an understanding major processes in 19th and early 20th century photography;
3) demonstrate an understanding of the major trends in 19th and early 20th century photography;
4) identify and discuss the work of key photographers in 19th and early 20th century photography;
5) articulate an awareness of the visual revolution which photography heralded for societies world-wide.
Brief description
Content
‘Opticks’ and the origins of photography: Philosophical Inquiries and Concepts centred on Light and Light Capture.
2. The 'Official' Invention (1839): Niepce, Daguerre and Talbot.
3. Exploring early photographs at the National Library of Wales.
4. A New Language: War, Travel and the Portrait.
5. A New Art: romance, polemics and recantations.
6. New Momentum, New Directions.
European and American currents in Modernist photography before 1945
7. Photo-Modernism: American Realism/European Experimental.
8. Politics and the Camera: Social(ist) Commentaries (1840s-1950s).
9. Documents and Narratives: Politics and Ideology as Photographic Form.
10. Margaret Bourke-White: War, Fortune and Steel.
11. Bill Brandt and Robert Frank: Documentary to Art.
Module Skills
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Communication | Written communication skills |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Written, critical, IS and research skills further developed |
Information Technology | Writing in an academic context using word processing and CAL systems |
Problem solving | Contextualizing historical precedent in the history of photography (e.g. visual, cultural, media, conceptual effects of the medium) |
Research skills | Researching through the use of library resources (National Library, Hugh Owen) as well electronic resources (e.g. JOEY, the internet), object studies (School of Art collections, NLW collections of photographs |
Team work | Seminar discussion groups and debate |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6