University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 2

Planned timetable: 3.00pm - 4.30pm Thu

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.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 1 class.

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100 %

Personnel

Module coordinator: Professor N A Adamson
Module teaching staff: Dr Natalie Adamson
Module coordinator email na14@st-andrews.ac.uk