2021-2022 Spring CURRENT OFFERING

Introduction to New Topographic Photography

(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)

  1. Develop a responsive attitude towards how lands are being used and disposed for human’s well-being in Hong Kong
  2. Express their interpretation of the appropriateness of land use through visual image
  3. Demonstrate a refined appreciation of the beauty exist in the human-made environment
  4. Manage photographic skills so as to reproduce the scene they have captured in decent details
  5. Describe the elements and trend in landscape photography

Lesson 1: Photographic technique

Lesson 2: Art history 1

Lesson 3-4: Field work and Presentation 1

Lesson 5-6: New Topographic Photography’s Perspective

Lesson 7-8: Field work and Presentation 2

Lesson 9-10: Field work and Presentation 3

Lesson 11: Tutorial and Artist Statement

Lesson 12-13: Exhibition set up and Final Presentation

  1. New Topographics, Britt Salvesen, Steidl & Partners, 2009
  2. Reframing the New Topographics, Greg foster-rice etal edit, Center Books on American Places, 2011
  3. Cities and Photography, Jane Thomey, Routledge, 2013

  1. Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography, Tod Papageorge, Aperture, 2011
  2. “Artsy”: artsy.net/gene/topographic-photography

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Enrolment Details

Course Registration : 26-27 Jan 2022
Add/Drop : 04-17 Feb 2022

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

Thursday | 10:30 am -12:20 nn
CYT-G009A

Saturday & Sunday (3 Field works)

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