Course

Photography: Public Images, Private Realities - SOMA3406

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

Enrolment Requirements:

L2 Photography Prerequisite

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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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 a€™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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