You will present for assessment one piece of work:
A 2500 word illustrated essay on a historical aspect of photographic practice.
(Learning Outcomes 1,2,3)

Submission is Summative Assessment. Please refer to the Award Handbook for a full description and rationale for assessment methods.

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

This module looks at particular aspects from the history of Photography. Since its earliest beginnings (from inventors Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot), the photographic picture has had a profound affect on us. Although we might work with different technologies today, most of the photographs we produce and the things we think about as a result, remain unchanged from those early pioneers. Through a series of lectures, you will come to know and acknowledge what has been achieved previously by key practitioners and types of practices. This knowledge will help you place your self as part of an ongoing and important tradition of picture-making. This will help you to develop your own contribution to Photography, with informed understanding and an awareness of how much photographic images are significant parts of our personal lives and culture.

This module also introduces you to analogue (film) cameras. You will look at both medium and large format cameras and also the black and white darkroom. This will enable you to not only understand how the historical practioners worked, but also to begin to formulate and make decisions about a more 'personalised' way of working.

You will be taught through a mixture of lectures, technical instruction and practical workshop-based delivery. The technical instruction component to this module constitutes the Health and Safety prerequisites that allow you loan provision for the particular equipment covered and also access to the black and white darkroom, through out the whole of your award.

Scheduled Learning Activities
Lectures
Technical Skills Modulettes
Group Tutorials (Feedback)
The `Photo-Voices¿ Lecture Programme

Guided Independent Study
Independent Reading and Research

Key Information Set Data
Scheduled Learning 27%
Guided Independent Learning 73%

Badger, G. (2007). The Genius Of Photography. London: Quadrille Publishing Limited
Clarke, G. (1997). The Photograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Frizot, M.(ed) (1998). A New History of Photography. Konneman. Bonn.
Warner. M. (2002/2006). Photography: A Cultural History. Laurence King. London

Specialist darkroom printing facilities
Specialist analogue photographic equipment
Lecture theatre and tutorial rooms
Thompson Library
Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment will support this module where relevant.
Word-processing and output facilities
Internet access