PHO1203 Photography 1
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
PHO1203 Photography 1 is a level 1, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, offered in 2020 in Summer A, Semester 1 and Semester 2 at Caulfield. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Summer A, Semester 1, Semester 2
- Caulfield
- Assessment
- No exam
- 2 tasks
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before PHO1203
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After PHO1203
No unit lists PHO1203 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibitions: PHO1101, PHO1111, PHO1121, GVA1203
Prerequisite: Admission to a degree program of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture; or permission from the Chief Examiner for non-Faculty applicants.
Overview
This unit develops an understanding of concepts of photomedia and an understanding of the relationship and relevance of student photographic work to aesthetics in photography, art and design. You will undertake a series of thematic projects which stimulate awareness in the creative processes of conceiving, producing and editing photographic imagery through the control, manipulation and application of appropriate photographic material (ie. digital photographic paper).
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Summer semester A | Caulfield | On campus |
| First semester | Caulfield | On campus |
| First semester (Fully flex) | Caulfield | Flexible |
| Second semester | Caulfield | On campus |
Assessment
- Conceptual Exercises40%
- Final Photographic Project60%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Demonstrate a basic practical and critical understanding of photography and its links with other media;
- 2
Access the Faculty Photomedia facilities and resources with a clear understanding of appropriate health and safety studio procedures and implement these procedures within your work practice;
- 3
Demonstrate a minimum level of competence and understanding of the operations associated with lens-based photography including the principles of photographic 'seeing' and technical principles of image production (i.e. use of light sensitive materials, exposure);
- 4
Demonstrate a basic understanding of photography as a visual language through working with photographic imagery as expressive, narrative and representational forms;
- 5
Demonstrate a basic vocabulary for the discussion of ideas and the role of images within the broader framework of contemporary society and art practice;
- 6
Demonstrate that you have the foundation necessary to undertake further units in Photomedia with a view towards either specialisation or application of the media within other studio disciplines.
Workload and teaching
- Studio activities48 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
- Teaching approachOnline learning
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
- Teaching approachField trips
12 hours per week including 4 contact hours plus 8 hours of independent study.
Learning resources
Required resources
Bright, Susan. Auto Focus: the self-portrait in contemporary photography, London, Thames and Hudson, 2010
Burgin, Victor. Visual Culture: the Reader . London: SAGE Publication, 1999
Photography after photography Memory and Representation in the digital age, G+B Arts, 1996
Bolton, Richard (ed.). The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography , MIT Press, 1989.
Miles, Melissa and Marsh, Anne The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light
Bright, Susan. Art Photography Now, London, Thames and Hudson, 2005
Buskirk, Martha . The contingent object of contemporary art , Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.
Lippard, Lucy (ed.). Six years: the dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972 . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Foster, Hal. Return of the Real the avant-garde at the end of the century. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, Craft and Contemporary Theory, ed.
Butler, Rex (ed). Radical Revisionism: An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art. IMA, Brisbane, 2005
Harris, Jonathan (ed.). Critical perspectives on contemporary painting: hybridity, hegemony, historicism , Liverpool: Liverpool University Press : Tate Liverpool, 2003.
Squiers, Carol, Overexposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography Overexposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography , NY: The New Press, 1999.
Fried M, Why Photography Matters as an Art as Never Before, Yale University
Lyons, Joan , Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook , Rochester, N.Y.
Flusser, Vilém. Für eine Philosophie der Photographie , Göttingen: European Photography (1983). Translated as Towards a Philosophy of Photography (2000) London: Reaktion Books.
Herbst, Steirischer, Abbild: Recent Portraiture and Depiction , Wien; New York: Springer, c2001.
Butler, Rex. A Secret History of Australian Art , Craftsman House, Sydney, 2002.
Marsh, Anne The darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire, Macmillan Education AU, 01/12/2003
French, Blair & Daniel Palmer. Twelve Australian Photo Artists . Annandale, N.S.W. Piper Press. 2008.
Stewart, Susan. On Longing. Duke University Press: Durham, 1993.
Belting, Hans. "Beyond iconoclasm. N. J. Paik, The Zen gaze, and the escape from representation", in: Bruno Latour - Peter Weibel, ed., Iconoclash (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002)
Hick, Roger, Studio and lighting : controlling and using light , London : Cassell, 1994.
Hughes, Robert. Shock of the New : art and the century of change . London: Thames & Hudson, 1991.
Flusser, Vilém. Photography and History in Writings , Andreas Ströhl, editor, translated by Erik Eisel, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. (2002)
Storr, Robert. Gerhard Richter: Doubt and Belief in Painting , Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003.
Barthes, Roland (2000) Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography , London: Vintage. First published as La Chambre Claire , Paris: Edition du Seuil, 1980.
Grosenick, Uta (ed), Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century, Koln : Taschen, 2001.
Belting, Hans. Bild-Anthropologie. Entwürfe für eine Bildwissenschaft (München: Fink Verlag, 2001), (to appear in French, Gallimard 2004), translated: An Anthropology of Images
Potts, Alex. The sculptural imagination: figurative, modernist, minimalist . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Wells, Liz . Photography: A Critical Introduction . London/New York. Routledge. 2004.
Foster, Hal. Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H D Buchloh. Art since 1900 . London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Marsh, Anne. Look: Contemporary Australian Photography Since 1980. South Yarra, Vic. Macmillan Art.2010.
Freeman, Michael, The Digital SLR Handbook , ILEX, Cambridge, England, 2005.
Schwabsky, Barry. Vitamin P: new perspectives in painting , New York: Phaidon Press Inc., 2002.
Spector, Buzz. The Book Maker’s Desire. Umbrella Editions: Santa Monica, 1995.
Corbell, Tony L. Basic studio lighting : the photographer's complete guide to professional techniques , New York ; [Great Britain] : Amphoto Books, c2001.
Bavister, Steve, Lighting for portrait photography , Crans-Près-Céligny ; Hove : RotoVision, c2001.
Flusser, Vilém. Ins Universum der technischen Bilder , Göttingen: European Photography. (1985) - Into the Universe of Technical Images , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Bury, Steven. Artists' Books. The book as a work of art: 1963-1995 . Hant UK & Vermont USA, 1998.
Bidner, Jenni, The lighting cookbook : foolproof recipes for perfect glamour, portrait, still life, and corporate photographs , New York : Amphoto Books, 1997
Campany, David. Art and Photography . London: Phaidon, 2003.
Krist, Bob. Secrets of lighting on location : a photographer's guide to professional lighting techniques , New York : Amphoto Books, 1996.
Badger, Gerry. The Genius of Photography: How Photography has Changed our Lives . London: Quadrille.2007
Murray, Kevin. Craft Unbound: make the common precious . Port Melbourne, Vic.: Craftsman House, an imprint of Thames and Hudson, 2005.
Flusser, Vilém. Die Geste des Fotografierens in: Gesten: Versuch einer Phänomenologie , Düsseldorf and Bensheim: Bollmann Verlag (1991)
Warr, Tracey (ed.). The Artist's Body (Themes and Movements) . London : Phaidon, 2000.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Mr Spiros Panigirakis
- Dr Meredith Turnbull
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Jacqui Shelton
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for PHO1203?
PHO1203 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is PHO1203 offered?
In 2020, PHO1203 runs in Summer A, Semester 1 and Semester 2 at Caulfield.
Does PHO1203 have an exam?
No. PHO1203 has 2 assessment tasks and no exam.