PT1210:03
History of Photography
Townsville
13 lectures, 11 tutorials. First semester.
Preference will be given to Bachelor of Photography students.
Staff: Dr S Albanus.
The making of pictorial images and the preparation of printing plates for reproducing pictorial images remained a handwork process until the invention of photography. A series of inventions through the course of the nineteenth century swept the reproduction of images into the machine age. Photography and graphic communications have been closely linked with the first experiments to capture an image of nature with a camera. This subject follows these beginnings to the present through an examination of techniques, styles and contents of particular movements, international photographers, culminating with Australian photographers and their journeys.
Learning Objectives:
- understand the concept of photographic image making in its historical context;
- ability to define the medium in terms of design concerns and documentation;
- familiarity with the issues and concerns regarding the manipulation of photographic images;
- understand the aspects of pictorialist photography and the amateur vs professional photographer.
Assessment by journal/notebook (20%); tutorial attendance and participation in set topics (30%); proposal of project (20%); project presentation (30%). Late submission of assessment items will attract penalties unless an extension has been granted in writing by the lecturer and work submitted by students with an attendance rate of less than 80% may not be eligible for assessment without prior written approval from the lecturer.