Course

Photography, Society, and the Built Environment - BENV2314

Faculty: Built Environment

School: Interior Architecture Program

Course Outline: Built Environment

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3.5

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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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.
Faculty of the Built Environment

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