Course

Critical Theories of Photography - SAHT3669

Faculty: College of Fine Arts

School: School of Art History and Art Education

Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)

Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus

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.
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