Critical Theories of Photography - SAHT3669
Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design
School: School of Art & Design
Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
Campus: Paddington
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Equivalent: SAHT9211
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
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Description
This course investigates major theories of photography from the Nineteenth Century up to the present. Theories of photography studied include realism, modernism, semiotics-structuralism, postmodernism and post-structuralism, and theories arising from the advent of digital photography. These theories are explored through the study of a broad range of photographic practices, Australian and international, historical and contemporary.