2014-15 Fall
(HART 1012)
1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
Course Description
An introduction to the art and expression of photography through brief lectures, hands-on activities and field trips. In this course, students will learn about the history and development of photography, photographers who have helped shape our vision of the world and the great photographs they have made, basic photographic vocabularies, perspectives, concepts, theories and techniques. Students will also experience using photography as a documentary, communication and expressive medium. Upon the completion of this course, students will have a much deeper understanding of the power and breadth of photography through studying how it affected and reflected the societal and cultural changes in societies.
Remarks
Camera Requirement
Students need to bring a camera to class, which need not to be a professional one, but it should be equipped with either:
- aperture priority setting (e.g. A/ Av mode) ; OR
- manual setting (M mode)
- Appreciate the history and development of photography
- Describe the characteristics of contemporary art photography and appreciate the master works
- Understand basic concepts, theories and techniques of photography
- Explain the relationship between photography and society by understanding the meanings behind different photographic images
- Experience using photo as documentary tool to record facts and explore ideas, and as a medium of expression and communication
Week 1: The nature of a photograph: as artistic expression, document, commercial promotion or journalistic communication
Week 2: Photographic attributes
Week 3: Composition, Color and control of light
Week 4: Photography and Society
Week 5: Field Trip 1 to Lai Chi Kok Garden
Week 6: Mid-term Presentation & Critique
Week 7: Photos and Texts
Week 8: Introduction to Contemporary Art Photography
Week 9: Photo collage (or known as Photomontage)
Week 10: Introduction to Portrait Photography
Week 11: Field Trip 2 to Tai O
Week 12-13: Presentation & Critique – Individual Project
- Barbara London & John Upton, Photography, Prentice Hall, 10th Edition, 2010. (Ch. 1-4, 7, 9-11, 17 & 18)
- Charlotte Cotton, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, 2004. (Introduction and Ch. 1)
Enrolment Details
Course Registration : 09-09 Oct 2024Add/Drop : 09-09 Oct 2024
Instructor
Leon SUEN
Assessment
| Attendance | 10% |
| Individual Project 1 | 35% |
| Individual Project 2 | 55% |