COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTZ 1005 HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY I COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Department of Photography

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR AHMET BEYHAN ÖZDEMIR

Offered to

Photography

Course Objective

Process of emergence of photography, the process of the invention and development of technical studies, between the years 1827 -1900 in the historical process aims at an understanding of the historical and social events and the photographers work.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Photo technically able to understand the work of the emergence
2   To understand the first half of the 19th century, the social structure, relations with photography
3   Understanding of the development of photography technology
4   Inventors of photography and recognize the work of 19th Century
5   The effects of the important events of the period to relate the history of photography

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The main sources of the history of photography
2 Photo inventors of the technical work
3 Photo inventors of the aesthetic attitude and reviews
4 Nicephore Niepce s and Daguerre s works
5 Features of Daguerreotype s and Calotype s
6 H.Fox Talbot s Calotype Method and first responders photos
7 Efforts to create an original aesthetics of photography
8 Transition to this portrait, portrait studio, tradition, and the establishment of Nadar
9 Mid-term exam
10 Naturalistic photography and P.Henry Emerson's works
11 Photographic Trends, and representatives of the photo-realistic trends
12 The trend in photography and the representatives of the symbolic
13 Photo-Secession Group, Alfred Siteglitz and Pure Photo Concept
14 Edward Weston s and August Sander's photographic works

Recomended or Required Reading

- Alberto Modiano, Fotoğraf Tarihi
- Eduard Boubart, Fotoğraf Sanatı
- Özer Kanburoğlu, A dan Z ye Fotoğraf, Say Yayınları
- Susan Sontag Fotoğraf Üzerine , Altıkırkbeş, 1993
- Susan Sontag Başkalarının Acısına Bakmak , Agora Kitaplığı, 2004
- Gisele Freund, Fotoğraf ve Toplum , Sel Yayıncılık, 2007
- Michel Frizot, A New History of Photography , Könemann, 1998

An article written about the history of Photography and Thesis

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment of the social and political conditions of the invention of photography, photographers, photo first photo samples and with the support of the development process will be studied not picked relationship to other art fields.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Asst.Prof.Dr. A.Beyhan Özdemir beyhan.ozdemir@deu.edu.tr 0 232 4129230

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 66

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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