COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHILOSOPHY OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTG 6102 PHILOSOPHY OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Photography

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SIMBER RANA ATAY

Offered to

Photography

Course Objective

In the context of this course, to determine the scope of Contemporary Photography Philosophy; to examine the contributions of the pioneers; to examine the institutions of their representatives; to investigate the connections between Contemporary Photography Philosophy and Photography History.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To recognize the pioneers of Contemporary Photography Philosophy.
2   To recognize the representatives of Contemporary Photography Philosophy.
3   To comprehend the interaction between Photography Philosophy and Photography History.
4   To discuss the interaction of Contemporary Photography Philosophy with Contemporary Art of Photography.
5   To criticize the contemporary photography environment.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1- General terminology
2 2- Philosophy of Contemporary Photography and Walter Benjamin
3 3- Philosophy of Contemporary Photography and Walter Benjamin
4 4- Philosophy of Contemporary Photography and Roland Barthes
5 5- Philosophy of Contemporary Photography and Roland Barthes
6 6- Philosophy of Contemporary Photography and XIX. Century Photography History
7 7- Philosophy of Contemporary Photography and XX. Century Photography History
8 8- Philosophy of Contemporary Photography and XXI. Century Photography History
9 9- Analogue Photo and Digital Photo Dialectics
10 10- Midterm exam
11 11- Friedrich Kittler and Optical Media
12 12- Geoffrey Batchen and the death of photography
13 13- Lev Manovich, New Media and photography
14 14- Philosophy of Contemporary Photography and Viktor Shklovski
15 15-Daniel Rubinstein and algorithmic photography

Recomended or Required Reading

Barthes, B.(2016). Camera Lucida,Istanbul:6:45
Bathchen, G.(1994). Each Wild Idea, Massachusetts: MIT
Benjamin, W.( 2008 ). Pasajlar, Istanbul:YKY
Kittler, F.( 2010 ).Optical Media,Cambridge, Polity Press
Lyotard, J.F.( 2013). Postmodern Durum, Ankara: Bilgesu
Manovich, L.(1995). The Paradoxes of Digital Photography,Germany: Photography after Photography. Exhibition catalog
Manovich, L.(2001). The Language of New Media, Massachusetts: MIT

Osborne, P.(2010). Infinite exchange: The social ontology of the photographic image, Philosophy of Photography,Vol. 1 N: 1, 59 68.

Rubinstein, D. ( 2008 )Life More Photographic; Mapping the Networked Image. photographies 1 (1):9-28.
Soutter, L.(1999). The Photographic Idea: Reconsidering Conceptual Photography, Afterimage Vol.26,N.5

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 142

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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