Seminar on Theory Photography 3

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Learning outcomes of the course unit:

This seminar is aimed at a deep analysis of the theory of photography.

Mode of study:

Students shall be asked to prepare papers on various texts (see lit.) and also on various exhibitions (according to the given possibilities). The papers request deep-going research. Literature used must be stated. They will present them in front of the other students and thus subdue these essays to their critical discussion.

[Each student has to give one presentation for one semester.]

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

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Course contents:

Description:

It is going more into deep but methodologically and thematically it is very much the sma as Theory of photograpohy I in BA study. Reading of theoretical literature on photography (and culture in general) and its critical judgement is demanded. It connects photography with semiotics and interculturual disciplines.

Assignments:

Students shall be asked to prepare papers on various texts (see lit.) and also on various exhibitions (according to the given possibilities). The papers request deep-going research. Literature used must be stated. They will present them in front of the other students and thus subdue these essays to their critical discussion.

[Each student has to give one presentation for one semester.]

Recommended or required reading:

Adorno Theodor: The Culture Industry, Routledge, London 2001

Barrett Terry: Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images

Barthes Rola nd: Camera Lucida, any edition

Barthes Roland: Image, Music Text, Hill and Wang, NY 1978

Benjamin Walter: Work in the Time of Mechanical Reproduction any edition

Bourdieu Pierre: Photography: A Middle-brow Art, Stanford University Press, Stanford 1990

Victor Burgin: The End of Art Theory (Communications & Culture)

Burgin Victor (ed.): Thinking Photography, MacMillan Press , London 1982

Burgin Victor: In/Different Spaces, University of California Press Berkley and Los Angeles 1996

Eco, Umberto: History of Beauty, any edition

Eco, Umberto: Opened Work, any edition

Carroll Noel: A Philosophy of Mass Art

Flusser Vilém: Towards a Philosophy of Photography, European Photography, Göttingen 1984

McLuhan Marshal: Understanding Media, McGraw-Hill, New York 1965

Squires Carol: OverExpeosed, The New Press, NY 1999

Sontag Susan: On Photography, any edition after 1977

Sontag, Susan: Regardong the Pain of the Ohers

Tagg: John The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories

Wells, Liz (ed.) The Photography Reader, Routledge, London 2003

Assessment methods and criteria:

Grading:

Participation in discussions: 45%

Presentation of essays in front of other students: 45%

Participation in course 10% (however not less than 60%)

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Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

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