Timetable and Reading List

DV1101 Discourse Module

Photography: Julie Cook

j.r.cook@uel.ac.uk

http://uelphotography.blogspot.com/

Fridays

All Photography single honours

Nearly All Photography Combined Honours

EB G14 9-11

Assignment

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Students will produce an online blog that will have 12 entries, each not exceeding 200 words.

Each entry will have credited images and weblinks to research material. It might also use video or other media.

Training will be provided for those who have not made a blog before.

All Blog options are suitable. Students can use Blogspot, Blogger, Myspace, Facebook Notes, Bebo or any other solution.

It is very important that you tutor knows your BLOG address

or your tutor will not be able to give feedback or will not be able to mark your work

OF the 12 entries 3 must be from the CORE topics

Photography Core Topics

Semiotics

Feminism

Modernism / Postmodernism

3 must be selected from the BIOGRAPHIES topics

Photography Biography topics

August Sanders

Juliet Margaret Cameron

Robert Frank

Paul Graham

Stephen Shore

Sam Taylor Wood

Nan Goldin

Zoe Strauss

Thomas Demand

William Eggleston

John Stezaker

Yasumasa Morimura

Jeff Wall

Martin Parr

Richard Prince

Eileen Perrier

6 Topics must be defined by the student.

These should be of personal interest for your own research and, ideally, should relate to the ‘discourse’ of your chosen degree programme.

Schedules

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Discourse DV1101 Photography Outline

11.02.10 Week 1 - Introduction to Discourse EB G 11

Introduction to Discourse and Brief

Library ITC09 12-2pm

18.02.10 Week 2 – Biography EB G 11

Stephen Shore

25.02.10Week 3 – Biography EB G 11

Roland Barthes

04.03.10 Week 4 – Core Subject EB G 11

Semiotics

11.03.10 Week 5 – Biography EB G 11

18.03.10 Week 6 –Biography EB G 11

25.03.10 Week 7 – Sophie Barr

Guest Lecturer

Core Subject EB G10

Feminism

01.04 Week 8 – Biography EB G 11

Susan Sontag

08.04 Week 9 – Core Subject EB G 11

Modernism/Post Modernism

VACATION (Deutsche Borse Prize 5^th April – 1 May)

29.04.10 Week 10 – Bank Holiday

06.05.10 Week 11 – EB G 11

Student Presentations

Subject From Blog

13.05. 10 Week 12 –Traditional Debate EB G 11

Subject tbc

Deadline 17^th May 2010 tbc

Discourse Reading List

Essential Reading

1. Photography: A Critical Introduction by Liz Wells, 2000

2. The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore, 2007

3. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Roland Barthes, 1993

Recommended Reading

1. Ways of Seeing, by John Berger, 2008

2. On Photography, Susan Sontag, 1979

3. Mythologies, by Roland Barthes, 1993

4. The Genius of Photography, by Gerry Badger, 2007

5. Robert Frank: The Americans, by Robert Frank , Jack Kerouac (Author), 2008

6. Introducing Semiotics by Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz , 2004

7. Introducing Postmodernism by Richard Appignanesi (Author), Chris Garratt (Author), 2007

8. Introducing Feminism (Introducing (Totem Books), by Cathia Jenainati (Author), Judy Groves (Illustrator), 2007

Exhibition

1.Roe Ethridge, Thomas Demand, Jim Goldberg, Elad Lassry

Deutsche Borse Prize 5^th April – 1 May

2. Paul Graham - Whitechapel Gallery, 29 January – 18 March 2011

3. John Stezaker - Whitechapel Gallery 29 January – 18 March 2011

4. Susan Hiller – Tate Britain 1 February – 15 May 2011

Magazines

Hotshoe

Foto8

Photoworks

Source

BLOGS