AH5111 The 'New Vision' in Twentieth-Century European Photography

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Prof N A Adamson

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Module Staff

Dr Natalie Adamson

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Module description

This module examines the formal features social context and political import of photography in Europe known by the umbrella label 'New Vision'. The focus will be on the aspects of photographic production and reception which demanded a new and different way of looking from viewers, such as montage, images of war, Surrealist photography, problems of viewpoint and angle, methods of manipulation and 'New Objectivity' and 'exact' photography. The photographers and theorists covered by the course include Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Rodchenko, Man Ray, Brassai, Renger-Patsch, August Sander, John Heartfield, Kertesz, Germaine Krull, Hannah Höch, Florence Henri, Ernst Jünger and Walter Benjamin.

Assessment pattern

Coursework =100 %

Re-assessment

An essay of 3000 words

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1.5 hour seminars ( x 10 weeks) and occasional fieldwork