Project 2: Understanding Genres Assignment 2: Analysis Through Making
Brief Read the chapter ‘Photography and the Art of the Past’ in Hope Kingsley, Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present (2012) Yale University Press, to read about comparisons between historical art and practitioners using Photography to offer differing challenges or explorations of art from the past. Make reflective notes on your reading and the…
Project 2: Understanding Genres, Assignment 2: Reflective notes on Photography and the Art of the Past
The chapter revolves around the importance of past art to inform the present. “Photography’s debt to fine-art conventions is more than imitation or homage; the past is adapted to inspire the present” (Kingsley, Hope) This is described as Historicism “This is Historicism: whether in architecture, the decorative arts or photography, it describes the revival of…
Project 2: Understanding Genres, Exercise 2: Comparative Analysis
Brief Choose 2 images to compare and contrast in a short piece of writing (500 words) or an equivalent audio/visual analysis presentation (4 minutes): First, consider what the act of choosing and positioning two images next to each other ‘does’. How is each image changed by the encounter? You might refer to ideas from your…
Project 2: Understanding Genres, Exercise 1: Part 2 Denotation and Connotation
Brief Part 2 Choose a suitable image for each of the 4 genres. From your reading of the Bate Photography Theory chapter, make your own analysis of your chosen images including both the denotation and connotations of your selected images. Juan, Count of Montizón, Obaysch, London Zoo’s first hippopotamus (1852) Image via Wikipedia (public domain…
Project 2: Understanding Genres, Exercise 1: Part 1 Denotation and Connotation
Brief Part 1 Read the Documentary Deconstruction source text and engage with the research task at the end of the document. Add reflective evidence of your reading and watching to your learning log. Research Task: Strategies for Deconstruction Search the ‘art term’ definitions and previous exhibitions at Tate Gallery and V&A Websites: Deconstruction (Tate, 2019a).…
Project 2: Understanding Genres: Reading Task: Terms and Definitions
Brief Read Chapter 2: Photography Theory in David Bate, Photography: The Key Concepts(2009) Bloomsbury. Make notes about: Structuralism. Semiotics. Photography codes. Rhetoric. Denotation and connotation. Reality and realism. Poststructuralism. Add these terms and definitions to your Glossary – you may wish to do your own further and independent research and reading to enhance your understanding…
Glossary
Glossary Key Terms and Definitions As you work through the course materials it will be beneficial to develop your own glossary on your blog. This will consist of key terms with their definitions. As you work through the unit, you will be able to build your list of terms. You can also add quotes or…
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