2017-18 Fall
(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
Lesson 1: Photographic technique
Lesson 2: Art history 1 on Topographic Photography
Lesson 3-4: Field work and Presentation 1 – a suburb of Hong Kong
Lesson 5-6: New Topographic Photography’s Perspective
Lesson 7-8: Field work and Presentation 2 – Colonial Land Use in Central
Lesson 9-11: Field work, Presentation 3 and Art History 2 – land and people
Lesson 12: Tutorial and Artist Statement
Lesson 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 : 24-25 Aug 2017Add/Drop : 01-14 Sep 2017
Instructor
Leon SUEN
Assessment
| Attendance & Course Participation | 20% |
| Presentation 1 | 10% |
| Presentation 2 | 20% |
| Presentation 3 | 20% |
| Final Project Presentation and Report | 30% |
Class Schedule
Friday| 10:00-11:50
CYT-G001
Sunday | Three Field Works
17 Sept : Shek Kip Mei - Sham Shui Po
8 Oct : Central
15 Oct : Shun Yee San Tsuen, Sheung Shui
No Class | 8 Sep, 10 & 17 Nov