PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
POV3214	History of Camera Images II	Spring	3	0	3	5

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Must Course
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TOLGA HEPDİNÇLER
Course Lecturer(s):	Assoc. Prof. LEWIS KEIR JOHNSON Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TOLGA HEPDİNÇLER
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course is a continuation of POV3213 History of Camera Images I. It will thus continue with the aim of providing you with histories of photography, film and video that can inform and enable your development as critical practitioners.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Recognise varieties of explanation of shifts from modernist to postmodernist accounts of the significance of camera-images
II. Recognise and analyse different modes of filmic narrative across factual and fictional modes and in relation to different socio-political and cultural interests
III. Recognise different accounts of the emergence and purposes of video technologies
IV. Recognise different accounts of the significance of digitization in photography, film and video
V. Recognise different accounts of globalization and the roles of visual images in these accounts
VI. Develop a critical account of relations to the history of camera-images and to contemporary visual culture relevant to the student’s practice

Course Content

The course will consider ways in which the technical powers of images have been used by contemporary practitioners. It explores the ways in which different photographic and film practices are involved in different claims to truth and knowledge in the context of our actual socio-cultural topics of interest. It reviews the transformation of photography and video practices, especially in the contemporary era.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction: review of History of Camera-Images I and issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to camera-images
2)	Assignment I	Working on the assignments.
3)	Post-war realities and fantasies in photographic work	Weekly readings will be assigned.
4)	Post-war realities and fantasies in filmic work: Hollywood and counter-cinemas	Weekly readings will be assigned.
5)	The emergence of video	Weekly readings will be assigned.
6)	Assignment II	Working on the assignments.
7)	Midterm; screening and discussion of filmic and video work in relation to uses of notion of postmodernism/the postmodern.	Weekly readings will be assigned.
8)	Camera-images and varieties of the postmodern in photography, film and video	Weekly readings will be assigned.
9)	Digitization in photography and photographic practices and genre	Weekly readings will be assigned.
10)	Digitization in film and film and video practices and genres	Weekly readings will be assigned.
11)	Globalization and transculture in camera-image practices	Weekly readings will be assigned.
12)	Assignment III	Working on the assignments.
13)	Current debates in photography, film and video	Weekly readings will be assigned.
14)	Presentation and discussion of visual essay assignments and revision	Working on the presentations.

Sources

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/

Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Knowledge of photographic and video media and ability to use basic, intermediate and advanced techniques of these media.	3
2)	Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate theories, concepts and uses of photography and video.	5
3)	Ability to employ theoretical knowledge in the areas of the use of photography and video.	5
4)	Familiarity with and ability to review the historical literature in theoretical and practical studies in photography and video.	5
5)	Ability in problem solving in relation to projects in photography and video.	3
6)	Ability to generate innovative responses to particular and novel requirements in photography and video.	5
7)	Understanding and appreciation of the roles and potentials of the image across visual culture	5
8)	Ability to communicate distinctively by means of photographic and video images.	5
9)	Experience of image post-production processes and ability to develop creative outcomes through this knowledge.	1
10)	Knowledge of and ability to participate in the processes of production, distribution and use of photography and video in the media.	4
11)	Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate global, regional and local problematics in visual culture.	5
12)	Knowledge of and ability to make a significant contribution to the goals of public communication.	5
13)	Enhancing creativity via interdisciplinary methods to develop skills for realizing projects.
14)	Gaining general knowledge about the points of intersection of communication, art and technology.