Photography Major Project - TMA1440

Assessment 1: Project work

Presentation of proposed direction for the major project, which includes: aims, proposed outputs, rationale for project outcomes and time management/project planning.

Project work

Assessment 1: Portfolio

Portfolio

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

The Photography Major Project is the culmination of your research, advanced studio practice and professional development. In this module you will initiate a comprehensive research project of your own choosing that demonstrates a level of complexity concomitant to professional contemporary photographic practice.
You will build upon your project proposal to develop a final stage framework to realise a set of outcomes and this may include group work subject to negotiation with your specialist supervisor. The Final Major Project will bring together the conceptual, aesthetic, functional and professional features of your work.
Working with a robust proposal you will rigorously test approaches, techniques, materials, and technologies of pre and post production to realise a unique photographic practice. The work you make will demonstrate a focused interrogation of modes and philosophies of practice informed by technological, social, cultural, ecological, theoretical and professional contexts. You will test your knowledge and understanding of appropriate publishing formats at key stages and present the culmination of your creative innovations in a showcase portfolio. Your individual project may evidence exemplary approaches to photographic practice in landscape, portraiture, documentary, abstract, architecture, narrative, motion, environmental, street, travel, culture editorial, commercial/artistic photographic genres and and/or other hybrid and transdisciplinary forms.
To stimulate intellectual and personal development, and a deep knowledge of advanced contemporary contexts, it is imperative that you work autonomously to identify and rigorously test key analogue and/or digital processes. The Major Project provides an opportunity for in-depth research into your unique area of interest. You will work to research, develop, critically reflect, refine and communicate both your personal methodological approach to photography and your conclusions, seeking an informed resolution to your personal photographic enquiry.

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Batchen, Geoffrey (2009) - Photography degree zero: reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera lucida
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Geoffrey Batchen - Carnal knowledge in Art Journal (2001)
Bate, David (2016) - Photography : The key concepts
Benjamin, Walter and Arendt, Hannah (1999) - Illuminations
Benjamin, Walter and Leslie, Esther (2015) - On photography
Benjamin, Walter (2008) - The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
Bolton, Richard (1989) - The Contest of meaning: critical histories of photography
Bull, Stephen (2010) - Photography
Burgin, Victor (1996) - In/different spaces: place and memory in visual culture
Chaudhuri, Shohini (2006) - Feminist film theorists: Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed
Cotton, Charlotte, Chao, Marina and Vermare, Pauline (2018) - Public, private, secret: on photography and the configuration of self
Cotton, Charlotte (2015) - Photography is magic
Edwards, Elizabeth and Hart, Janice (2004) - Photographs objects histories: on the materiality of images
Edwards, Elizabeth and Morton, Christopher A. (2015) - Photographs, museums, collections: between art and information
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Edwards Steve (2012) - Martha Rosler: The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems
Elkins, James (2007) - Photography theory
Elkins, James (2011) - What photography is (1st ed)
Enwezor, Okwui (2008) - Archive fever: uses of the document in contemporary art
Evans, David (2009) – Appropriation
Haworth-Booth, Mark (1997) - Photography: an independent art : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1839-1996
Jones, Amelia and Warr, Tracey (2000) - The artist's body: themes and movements
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Lister, Martin (2013) - The photographic image in digital culture
Marien, Mary Warner - Photography: a cultural history
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Ritchin, Fred (2010) - After photography
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Smith, Peter and Lefley, Carolyn (2016) - Rethinking photography: histories, theories, and education
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail (1997) - Photography at the dock: essays on photographic history, institutions and practices
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van Dijck, J. - Digital photography: communication, identity, memory in Visual Communication (2008)
Wells, Liz (2015) - Photography: a critical introduction
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Zapperi, Giovanna - Woman's reappearance: Rethinking the archive in contemporary art - Feminist perspectives in Feminist Review (2013)
Zylinska, Joanna (2017) - Nonhuman photography
Zylinska Joanna Sarah Kember (1016) - Photo mediations

TMA1440 - Photography Major Project

Photography Major Project

be able to assess the currency, relevance and suitability of your project (individual or group) within a defined context.

be able to communicate your chosen specialism and evaluate the photographic outcomes in an appropriate professional manner. 



be able to demonstrate advanced subject knowledge through robust research development to produce original outcomes in photography.

be able to evidence comprehensive knowledge of relevant techniques applicable to photographic practice. 

be able to systematically plan, organise and project manage your outcomes, using appropriate formats.

be able to evidence skills as a reflective practitioner to record and critically analyse progress in order to make decisions, conceptualise complex ideas and initiate new discoveries.