2015-16 Spring
(HART 1025)
1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
Course Description
The New Topographic photographers acknowledged people’s interaction with the land by picturing built urban environments. It signaled a new approach to landscape photography that adopted an aesthetic of apparent objectivity, while taking as its subject matter the effects of humanity on the modern landscape. Students taking this course will learn about the history, development, theories and skills of “New Topographic” photography.
Remarks
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)
- Develop a responsive attitude towards how lands are being used and disposed for human’s well-being in Hong Kong
- Express their interpretation of the appropriateness of land use through visual image
- Demonstrate a refined appreciation of the beauty exist in the human-made environment
- Manage photographic skills so as to reproduce the scene they have captured in decent details
- Describe the elements and trend in landscape photography
Week 1: Photographic technique
Week 2-3: Art history on Topographic Photography
Week 4-5: Field work and Presentation 1 – a suburb of Hong Kong
Week 6: New Topographic Photography’s Perspective
Week 7-9: Field work and Presentation 2 – Colonial Land Use in Central
Week 10-11: Field work and Presentation 3 – land and people
Week 12-13: Final Presentation Development & Exhibition
- New Topographics, Britt Salvesen, Steidl & Partners, 2009
- Reframing the New Topographics, Greg foster-rice etal edit, Center Books on American Places, 2011
- Cities and Photography, Jane Thomey, Routledge, 2013
- Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography, Tod Papageorge, Aperture, 2011
- “Artsy”: artsy.net/gene/topographic-photography
Enrolment Details
Course Registration : 10-10 Oct 2024Add/Drop : 10-10 Oct 2024
Instructor
Leon SUEN
Assessment
| Participation | 20% |
| Presentation 1 | 10% |
| Presentation 2 | 20% |
| Presentation 3 | 20% |
| Final Project Presentation and Report | 30% |