Critical Theories of Photography - SAHT9211
Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design
School: School of Art & Design
Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
Campus: Paddington
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Equivalent: SAHT3669
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
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Description
This course will examine the major ways in which photography has been theorised from its inception to the present. Key theories of photography studied include positivism, realism, formalist modernism, postmodernism and poststructuralism. Theorisations of the impact of digital technologies on the photographic medium will also be addressed. Theories examined in the course will be applied to historical and contemporary examples of photographic practice.
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