Critical Theories of Photography - SAHT9211

   
   
   
 
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Equivalent: SAHT3669
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


This course will examine the major ways in which photography has been theorised from its inception to the present. Key theories of photography studied include positivism, realism, formalist modernism, postmodernism and poststructuralism. Theorisations of the impact of digital technologies on the photographic medium will also be addressed. Theories examined in the course will be applied to historical and contemporary examples of photographic practice.