THE BRIEF

DV1101 Discourse Module

Julie Cook

j.r.cook@uel.ac.uk

http://uelphotography.blogspot.com/

Discourse Fridays:WB 1.01 - 11.00AM – 1.PM

Assignment

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Students will produce an online blog that will have 12 entries, each about 200 words. (One blog should be completed each week and should ideally respond to a live event or experience ( for example a book, a magazine article, a journal or an exhibition or film. ) Each entry will have credited images and weblinks to research material. It might also use video or other media.

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

Identity (Gender/Race)

Modernism / Postmodernism

3 must be selected from the BIOGRAPHIES topics

August Sanders

Lee Miller

William Eggleston

Richard Avedon

Hannah Hock

Robert Frank

Stephen Shore

Sam Taylor Wood

Andreas Gursky

Tim Hetherington

Martin Parr

Annie Liebovitz

JR

Helmet Newton

Joel Sternfeld

Cindy Sherman

Barbara Kruger

Robert Mapplethorpe

Richard Hamilton

Alan Warburton

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.