Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students will be able to:
(1) Recognise and describe key photographic processes (and their chronological development) from the 19th century to the present
(2) Identify and explain the importance of historically significant photographers, as well as examples of their work
(3) Demonstrate knowledge of theoretical frameworks concerning photography's status as art, technology, and as a form of witness and documentation
(4) Demonstrate familiarity with and application of correct terminology when analysing photographs, developing critical thinking and writing skills
Indicative Module Content:
Topics will include the innovations of early photography; pictorialism and ‘straight’ photography; photojournalism and war photography; photography and modernism (abstraction, surrealism, the ‘new Objectivity’); post-modernism (conceptualism and new digital practices); and the role of the photograph as ‘document’ and photographer as ‘witness’.