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Photography: Public Images, Private Realities - SOMA3406

Faculty: College of Fine Arts

School: School of Media Arts

Course Outline: Downloadcourse 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

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Description

In a media-saturated world photography is often a driving force in how we navigate, record and make sense of the spaces we travel through and inhabit. In Photography: Public Images, Private Realities you will explore the idea of photography as a both a medium and way of seeing in the 21st century. In the process you will focus on photography’s production and uses within real and virtual public spheres and how this defines and shapes our perceptions of geography, identity and politics. From 'selfies' to Google street-view and surveillance, you will explore everyday processes of photographic materiality, transmission and circulation in contemporary art and life using readily available tools and mediums, such as Xerox-imaging, camera-phones, social media and agitprop poster practices.


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