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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
See https://www.anu.edu.au/covid-19-advice. This course includes on campus/in person activities that cannot be adjusted for remote participants. This course offers a critical and practical introduction into the principles of analogue photography and darkroom processes. Through a series of practical projects, students will encounter a range of different techniques, chemical operations and approaches to cameraless photography. Studio theory will engage with questions of photographic authorship, materiality, toxicity and the foundational techniques through which our understanding of the medium has evolved. In addition, students will be introduced to a range of contemporary practitioners, and reflect on the intensification and fetishisation of of analogue photography in post-digital culture, from Instagram to the Gallery.
Portfolio of studio work
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Major project
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Written Critical Reflection (which contextualises and evaluates the portfolio), 1500 words
Learning outcomes 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 12 weeks comprising lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and b) 82 hours of independent studio practice, reading and writing. Other Information School of Art and Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.
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