| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Definition of contemporary art.
Its relation to modern art practices.
Debates about the notion.
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| 2) |
Definition and explanation of contemporary photographic practices.
Early debates on the subject (dating from 1970's)
Photography related modern and postmodern practices. |
Weekly readings will be assigned. |
| 3) |
Photography and the agents of contemporary art.
I. Basic information of the agents of art: Museums, spectacle, markets.
II. Contemporary photography and its practice within the agents of contemporary art. |
Presentation: Analyze the work of a contemporary artist . |
| 4) |
Pre-contemporary examples and debates on photography-I: Avant-gardes and their experiments with the medium. Avant-garde narrative style in photography. |
Assignment I: Mimicking the artistic experiments of avant-gardes. |
| 5) |
Pre-contemporary examples and debates on photography-II: The social use of photography and questioning identity. Ethnicities and gender in photographic medium.
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Assignment 2: Creating a narrative with one’s own experiences by the means of the photographic medium. |
| 6) |
Pre-contemporary examples and debates on Photography-III: Converging media and its relation to artistic experience. Intertextuality in photographic practices. |
Assignment 3: A visual diary which includes text and photographs. |
| 7) |
Themes / Identity and the Body - Examples from the works of Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Nobuyashi Araki etc. and their critiques. |
Weekly readings will be assigned. |
| 8) |
Themes / Place- Examples from Andreas Gursky, Hilda and Bernd Becher, Thomas Struth etc. and their critiques. |
Weekly readings will be assigned. |
| 9) |
Themes / Time - Examples from Gerard Richter, Hans Peter Feldman etc.
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Assignment 4 |
| 10) |
Current Issues of Contemporary Photography-I
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Weekly readings will be assigned. |
| 11) |
Current Issues of Contemporary Photography-II
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Assignment 5 |
| 12) |
Contemporary Photography in Turkey.
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Weekly readings will be assigned. |
| 13) |
Creating ideas for the final project. |
Preparation for Final Assignment A |
| 14) |
Presentations and discussions.
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Preparation for Final Assignment B |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: |
1. Cotton, C. (2009). The photograph as contemporary art. London New York, N.Y: Thames & Hudson.
2. Marien, M. (2006). Photography : a cultural history. London: Laurence King. |
| References: |
1. Costello, D. & Iversen, M. (2010). Photography after conceptual art. Chichester, West Sussex, UK Malden, MA, USA Great Britain: Wiley-Blackwell Association of Art Historians.
2. Smith, T. (2009). What is contemporary art. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
3. Szarkowski, J. (2007). The photographer's eye. New York: Museum of Modern Art. |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society |
4 |
| 2) |
Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art |
3 |
| 3) |
Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area |
1 |
| 4) |
Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey |
1 |
| 5) |
Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product |
2 |
| 6) |
Being able to write a script ready to be shot |
2 |
| 7) |
Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment |
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| 8) |
Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations |
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| 9) |
Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages |
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| 10) |
Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage |
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| 11) |
Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white |
3 |
| 12) |
Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility |
5 |
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