COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CURATORSHIP

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTZ 4010 PHOTOGRAPHY AND CURATORSHIP COMPULSORY 2 2 0 6

Offered By

Photography

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SIMBER RANA ATAY

Offered to

Photography

Course Objective


269/5000
This course examines the meaning of the concept of curating in the history of galleries and museums,
curators' impact on exhibition preparation and implementation, photo archive and curatorial tendencies in the evaluation of collections and new museum understanding aims to show.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Having an opinion about the important photography exhibitions in the history of photography,
2   To understand the function and importance of curation,
3   Having information about archiving and collection methods,
4   To be able to comprehend the importance and impact of photography in current museum understanding
5   It is expected to be creative in terms of display and presentation methods.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Process and method of the course
2 What is Wunderkammer
3 The emergence of the concept of curatorship
4 Traditional museology and new museum understanding
5 Edward Steichen and the Human Family exhibition
6 Photography unit in museums such as Guggenheim and Moma, and curators
7 What are the duties of the curator
8 Interview and workshop with the curator to be determined
9 Conceptual preparation of a photography exhibition
10 Physical preparation of a photography exhibition
11 What is exhibition photography
12 Albert Kahn museum archive and its importance
13 Project evaluation
14 Project evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

- Ali Artun (der.) Sanatçı Müzeleri , Iletişim, 2005
- Ali Artun (der.), Sanat Müzeleri I-II , Iletişim, 2006
- Ali Artun, Çağdaş Sanatın Örgütlenmesi , Iletişim, 2011
Bettina Messias Carbonell, Museum Studies , Blackwell Publishing, 2004
- Lisa Corrin, Mining The Museum , New Press, 1994
Douglas Crimp, On The Museum Ruins , MIT, 1993
- Louis Cummins, Undermining the Museum , The City University of New York, 2002
- Levent Çalıkoğlu, Koleksiyon, Koleksiyonerlik ve Müzecilik , YKY, 2009
- David Dean, Museum Exhibition , Routledge, 2004
- Eilian Hooper-Greenhill, Museum, Media, Message , Routledge, 2001
- Zeynel Abidin Kızılyaprak, Müzecilikte Yeni Yaklaşımlar, Küreselleşme ve
Yerelleşme , Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, 2000
- Burçak Madran, Kent, Toplum, Müze , Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, 2001
- Kynaston McShine, The Museum As Muse , MoMA, 1999
- Susan M. Pearce, Museum, Objects and Collections , Smithsonian Institutions Press,
1993
- James Putnam, Art and Artifact , Thames&Hudson, 2001
- Karsten Schubert, Küratörün Yumurtası , Istanbul Sanat Müzesi Vakfı, 2004
- Julian Stallabrass, Sanat A.Ş. , Iletişim, 2009
- Don Thompson, Sanat Mezat , Iletişim, 2011
- Peter Vergo, The New Museology , Reaction Books, 1989
- Chin-Tao Wu Kültürün Özelleştirilmesi , Iletişim, 2005

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.60 + ASG * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

simber.atay@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 12.00-13.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Applying activity 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Field study 2 10 20
Web Search and Library Research 2 10 20
Project Preparation 1 10 10
Other (watching artwork belong to visual arts) 14 1 14
Project Assignment 1 2 2
Project Final Presentation 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 152

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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