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Photography: History and -actuality 212318/2114/2122/1/84
Study guide

Photography: History and -actuality 2

12318/2114/2122/1/84
Academic year 2021-22
Is found in:
  • Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts, programme stage 2
    Specialisation:
    • Photography
  • Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts
    Specialisation:
    • Photography
  • Bridging Programme Visual Arts
  • Preparatory Programme Visual Arts
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 3 credits
Special admission is required to enrol in this course unit under
  • exam contract (to obtain a credit).
  • exam contract (to obtain a degree).
Co-ordinator: Henneman Inge
Languages: Dutch, English
Scheduled for: Semester 1
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Possible deadlines for learning account: 31.10.2021 ()
Re-sit exam: is possible.
Possibility of deliberation: You have to pass this course unit (will never be deliberated).
Total study time: 72,00 hours

Prerequisites

Prerequisite competencies (text)

Reading and listening comprehension are necessary skills, as well as writing skills. Capable of self-tuition.

Learning outcomes (list)

BA2 - The student has the necessary knowledge, skills and insights regarding material, form, action, concepts, function and contents of the chosen medi
The student knows the different historical styles and image strategies.
BA5 - When developing his/her personal visual language the students starts from a searching and reflective attitude when developing one's own visual language.
The student has his own vision on the history of photography.
The student can link the acquired knowledge to his own photographic artistic work.

Course content

Survey of the modernist photographic movements and practices from pictorialism to surrealism, from Atget to Sander, and from Paris to Moscou, from the first half of the 20th Century. Focus on the photobook. Profound analysis of defining issues and topics of avant-garde photography, such as machine-aesthetics, primitivism, abstraction and experiment, montage, straight and street photography. Focus on the deep connection between photography and society, and on the multiple roles of the photographic medium, from art to press and fashion photography. Comparative studies of modern/ contemporary aesthetics concerning the approach of genre such as the portrait or architecture etc.

Study material (text): Mandatory

David Campany, Art and Photography, Phaidon, 2012

Juliet Hacking, Photography: The Whole Story, Thames & Hudson, 2012

Charlotte Cotton, The photograph as contemporary art, Thames and Hudson, 2009

Educational organisation (list)

Exam duration
Estimated time for testing
Learning Activities
Collaborative learning24,00 hours
  • Description: teamwork and individual student presentations
  • Remark: teamwork consists of reading and looking together
Lectures and / or tutorials24,00 hours
  • Description: lectures
Work time outside of contact hours24,00 hours
  • Description: self study - visit expositions and library FOMU/KASKA - assignments reading, writings, image analysis
  • Remark: independent research

Evaluation (list)

Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
MomentForm%Remark
Semester 1Knowledge test100,00Attendance of the classes is required
Evaluation(s) for re-sit exam
MomentForm%Remark
2nd examination periodKnowledge test100,00

Evaluation (text)

First Semester: Oral Exam and paper (Portrait of a photographer)

Re-examination: oral exam and paper