Objectives and competences
- present an overview of history of photography from its origins until today
- present the different interpretations and significance of the most important photographs
- present the main photographic techniques
- introduce the ways of using photographs as documents in arthistorical work
- instruct on basics of photography and archiving of photographs for arthistorical work.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- Beginnings of Photography, dagerotypia
- Photography and documentations
- Pictorialism in photography
- Photography between two world wars
- Photography after world war II
- "Mariborski krog"
- practice
Overview of history of photography is designed chronolically. Among chosen cases from world history, cases of Slovenian patrimony are equally included. Qualitative peaks from history of photography in Slovenia are emphasised.
Practice enables the student to inform on the basics of phtography and archiving photographies for the needs of work on history of arts.
Learning and teaching methods
- lecture with projection
- seminar practice
- independent presentations of student seminar work
- field practice
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- the student recognizes, identifies and interprets the main photographic works from the global and Slovenian history of photography
- describes the development of main directions in the history of photography and defines their characteristics
- compares and differentiates the main directions and/or photographs
- explains the different meanings of photography for the development of visual arts
- explains the characteristics of the most important photographic techniques and their evolution through history
- is able to take documentary/topographic photographs of architectural objects and works of art and knows how to archive it for purposes of arthistorical research.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Obtained knowledge will be used by the student in other subjects of the study programme History of Arts, at writing seminar works and diploma thesis.
Readings
JEFFREY, Ian, Photography : A Concise History, London 1996
CLARKE, Graham, The Photograph, Oxford 1997
KAMBIČ, Mirko, KOVIČ, Brane, KREČIČ Peter, 150 let fotografije na Slovenskem, Ljubljana 1989
LAMPIČ, Primož, Fotografija in stil : Premene v mediju od realizma do modernizma, Ljubljana 2000
SONTAG, Susan, O fotografiji, Ljubljana 2001
Podrobnejša navodila za literature prejmejo študentje od predavatelja.
Prerequisits
No special prerequisites.
Additional information on implementation and assessment - valuation of the practical realisations
- seminar work and its presentation
- oral exam
(Positive grade of seminar work is obligatory for access to oral exam.)
