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Photography, Society, and the Built Environment - BENV2314 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description This elective will give students an individual opportunity to use a camera as a visual research tool in the exploration of society and the built environment. The course involves theory and practice. A series of lectures covering different aspects of social documentary: a brief history of this genre, photojournalism, the photo-essay, street photography, oral history, the family album; and an introduction to some contemporary photographers detailing the urban environment through pattern or landscape.
In Photography there is an intimate link between the image and the original. Light acting on and transforming emulsion still seems magical, or thousands of pixels transferred digitally to catch a moment in time is extraordinary. The ability to freeze frame movement in space, hold still light in time, document our communities today for tomorrow, record our visual reality is a powerful tool. With this power comes certain responsibility. |