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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course offers a critical and practical introduction to post-digital photographic culture, at a time when social media and photoshop has radically transformed the meaning, agency and value of images. Students will learn experimental approaches to digital image-making, with a focus on postproduction techniques and methods for methods for manipulating, staging and exhibiting contemporary photomedia in print and on-screen. The course will contextualise a range of practitioners working in photography and related media since the 1990s, and focusing on questions of authorship, appropriation, copyright and methodologies for subverting image culture.
Portfolio of work
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Major Project
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Critical Reflection of 1500 words contextualising major project
Learning outcomes 3, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks comprising lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and b) 94 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.
As published on Wattle. Preliminary Reading Shore, Robert. Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera. Laurence King Publishing, 2014. Ritchin, Fred. After Photography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. Squiers, Carol, ed. What Is a Photograph? New York : International Center of Photography, 2014