INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS DESIGN | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
POV3213 | History of Camera Images I | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi PRÖHL JOCHEN JAKOB |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. NAZLI EDA NOYAN CELAYİR Assoc. Prof. LEWIS KEIR JOHNSON Prof. Dr. HASAN KEMAL SUHER |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course aims to provide histories of camera-images that can inform and enable your development as critical practitioners. The course will review key events in the history of photography and film as picture-making activities, from early attempts to fix images of light to the end of the First World War. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Discriminate between different accounts of the invention of photogaphic images. 2. Relate the emergence of photographic images to prior histories of images and visual culture. 3. Assess the relationship between photographic images and truth-claims made for them. 4. Understand variety of early photographic techniques. 5. Understand variety of genres of uses of early photography. 6. Appreciate reasons for shifts in truth claims for photographic images. 7. Understand variety of purposes for the emergence of filmic images and relations with science and with traditions of public entertainment. 8. Develop understanding of shifts in relations between camera-images and the status and identity of objects as art. 9. Develop understanding of shifts in status of camera-images as documents, documentary and reportage. 10. Explore traditions of camera-images inventively. |
The course will consider ways in which the technical powers of photography have been used by innovative practitioners. It explores the ways in which different photographic and film practices have been involved in different claims to truth and knowledge. It reviews the emergence of different film practices. It explores the differences between genres, assessing the relation between formal innovation in film practice and socio-political, including institutional, changes. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction: Camera-images, history, time, narrative and memory | |
2) | Assignment I | Working on the assignments. |
3) | Photography: inventions and directions | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
4) | Early photographic portraiture | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
5) | Early photographic landscape | Working on the assignments. |
6) | Assignment II | Working on the assignments. |
7) | Midterm; screening of early film | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
8) | Early film and early cinema I: science and the rationalisms of movement | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
9) | Early film and early cinema II: varieties of the staging of film | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
10) | Photography and film alter art: responses to camera images in modern art | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
11) | Art alters photography and film: modernism and avant-garde photographic and filmic practices | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
12) | Assignment III | Working on the assignments. |
13) | Genres of reportage, documentary, fiction, fantasy and fashion | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
14) | Presentations for and discussion of visual essay assignments; revision | Working on the presentations. |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History, 2nd edition, Laurence King, London, 2006; Ian Jeffrey, Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England, 1999; Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, The MIT Press, 1999. |
References: | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum, NY): http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?s=all&t=all&d=photographs&x=21&y=15 Victoria and Albert Museum, Photography: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/ |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 1 | % 15 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 5 | 70 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | 5 | 10 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 126 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Having the theoretical and practical knowledge proficiency in the discipline of industrial product design | |
2) | Applying professional knowledge to the fields of product, service and experience design development | |
3) | Understanding, using, interpreting and evaluating the design concepts, knowledge and language | |
4) | Knowing the research methods in the discipline of industrial product design, collecting information with these methods, interpreting and applying the collected knowledge | |
5) | Identifying the problems of industrial product design, evaluating the conditions and requirements of problems, producing proposals of solutions to them | |
6) | Developing the solutions with the consideration of social, cultural, environmental, economic and humanistic values; being sensitive to personal differences and ability levels | |
7) | Having the ability of communicating the knowledge about design concepts and solutions through written, oral and visual methods | |
8) | To identify and apply the relation among material, form giving, detailing, maintenance and manufacturing methods of design solutions | |
9) | Using the computer aided information and communication technologies for the expression of industrial product design solutions and applications | |
10) | Having the knowledge and methods in disciplines like management, engineering, psychology, ergonomics, visual communication which support the solutions of industrial product design; having the ability of searching, acquiring and using the knowledge that belong these disciplines when necessary. | |
11) | Using a foreign language to command the jargon of industrial product design and communicate with the colleagues from different cultures | |
12) | Following and evaluating the new topics and trends that industrial product design needs to integrate according to technological and scientific developments |