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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Images and Pleasures

  • Unit Code

    PHO2202

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

In this applied unit students will investigate the subjects, practices and aesthetics of fashion and studio photomedia production.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PHO2103

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO3222

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the nature of aesthetically satisfying objects and practices.
  2. Describe, using a visual language, interpretive perspectives that theorise practices associated with the production and consumption of promotional and aesthetic photomedia genres.
  3. Integrate a range of equipment, materials and techniques in the photographic rendering of surfaces and objects.

Unit Content

  1. A critique of aesthetic and promotional discourses.
  2. An engagement with the process of presenting visual production and the conceptual thinking underpinning it, to peer review.
  3. An examination of relationships between objects, visual texts and visual pleasure.
  4. Formal and critical analyses of the practices of selected photographers associated with the photographic aesthetisation of objects and the picturing of objects of desire.
  5. Instruction in the use of medium and large format cameras, including 6x6, monorail and field cameras and the use of studio lighting equipment and techniques incorporated in the photographic rendering of objects.
  6. This unit will cover the following topics:

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Tutorials. Workshops. Fieldwork.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyProject50%
Creative WorkProject 150%

Text References

  • Webber, B. (2005). Blood, sweat and tears. Germany: Te Nuess.
  • Chermayeff, K. (1999). Fashion photography now. New York: Harry N. Abrams.
  • Ewing, W.A. (1996). Blumenfeld: A fetish for beauty. London: Thames and Hudson.
  • Harrison, M. (1992). Appearances. London: Cape.
  • Lorenz, R. (2001). Arthur Tress: Fantastic voyage. Boston: Little Brown.
  • Newton, J., & Keller, W. (1998). Helmut Newton: Pages from the glossies: Facsimilies 1956 - 1998. Zurich: Scalo.
  • Leibovitz, A. A photographer's life. London: Jonathan Capel.
  • Behrend, U. (1996). Girls, some boys and other cookies. Zurich: Scalo
  • Penn, I. (2001). Still life. London: Thames & Hudson.
  • Seelig, T. (2005). The ecstasy of things. Germany: Steidl.

Journal References

  • Afterimage
  • Aperture
  • Art and Text
  • Camera Work
  • Photofile
  • Ten.8

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Images and Pleasures

  • Unit Code

    PHO2202

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

In this applied unit students will investigate the subjects, practices and aesthetics of fashion and studio photomedia production.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PHO2103

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO3222

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the nature of aesthetically satisfying objects and practices.
  2. Describe, using a visual language, interpretive perspectives that theorise practices associated with the production and consumption of promotional and aesthetic photomedia genres.
  3. Integrate a range of equipment, materials and techniques in the photographic rendering of surfaces and objects.

Unit Content

  1. A critique of aesthetic and promotional discourses.
  2. An engagement with the process of presenting visual production and the conceptual thinking underpinning it, to peer review.
  3. An examination of relationships between objects, visual texts and visual pleasure.
  4. Formal and critical analyses of the practices of selected photographers associated with the photographic aesthetisation of objects and the picturing of objects of desire.
  5. Instruction in the use of medium and large format cameras, including 6x6, monorail and field cameras and the use of studio lighting equipment and techniques incorporated in the photographic rendering of objects.
  6. This unit will cover the following topics:

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Tutorials. Workshops. Fieldwork.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyProject50%
Creative WorkProject 150%

Text References

  • Webber, B. (2005). Blood, sweat and tears. Germany: Te Nuess.
  • Chermayeff, K. (1999). Fashion photography now. New York: Harry N. Abrams.
  • Ewing, W.A. (1996). Blumenfeld: A fetish for beauty. London: Thames and Hudson.
  • Harrison, M. (1992). Appearances. London: Cape.
  • Lorenz, R. (2001). Arthur Tress: Fantastic voyage. Boston: Little Brown.
  • Newton, J., & Keller, W. (1998). Helmut Newton: Pages from the glossies: Facsimilies 1956 - 1998. Zurich: Scalo.
  • Leibovitz, A. A photographer's life. London: Jonathan Capel.
  • Behrend, U. (1996). Girls, some boys and other cookies. Zurich: Scalo
  • Penn, I. (2001). Still life. London: Thames & Hudson.
  • Seelig, T. (2005). The ecstasy of things. Germany: Steidl.

Journal References

  • Afterimage
  • Aperture
  • Art and Text
  • Camera Work
  • Photofile
  • Ten.8

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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