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Course: FOG218 Photography Project, 15 credits
Course manager: Klara Källström
email: klara.kallstrom@gu.se
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Schedule (updated 2021-05-12)
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Note that the course schedule is preliminary up to two weeks before the course starts.
June
Week 23
Monday, 13:00-15:00, Introduction to the course FOG218 and literature list
Tuesday, 10:00-12:00, Lecture, how to do a project and artist talk by course manager and teacher Klara Källström
Wednesday, 09:00-11:00, Lecture by Eva-Teréz Göllin on color-handling and printmaking, including instructions to the following meetings with Eva-Teréz throughout the course.
Friday, 13:00-14:00 (Swedish) and 14:00-15:00 (English) Introduction to academic studies by Magnus Sterner-Bernvik, Education Officer (Utbildningshandläggare). Open to all summer course students at HDK-Valand 2021.
Week 24
Tuesday, 09:00-12:00, Group tutorial, Group 1A (5 students)
Tuesday, 13:00-16:00, Group tutorial, Group 1B (5 students)
Wednesday 09:00-12:00, Group tutorial, Group 2A (5 students)
Wednesday, 13:00-16:00, Group tutorial, Group 2B (5 students)
Thursday, 09:00-12:00, Group tutorial, Group 2C (5 students)
Week 25
Wednesday, 09:00-16:00, Individual tutorial of 25 minutes with Eva-Teréz (book through Doodle link)
Thursday, 09:00-16:00, Individual tutorial of 25 minutes with Eva-Teréz (book through Doodle link)
Week 26
Tuesday, 09:00-12:00, Group tutorial, Group 2B (5 students)
Tuesday, 13:00-16:00, Group tutorial, Group 2A (5 students)
Wednesday 09:00-12:00, Group tutorial, Group 1B (5 students)
Wednesday, 13:00-16:00, Group tutorial, Group 1A (5 students)
Thursday, 10:00-12:00, Seminar, Literature review (full class)
Thursday, 13:00-16:00, Group tutorial, Group 2C (5 students)
July
Independent studies, literature review and video lectures.
Throughout the month of July, you will be working independently on your project and you will be writing a literature review.
Please choose one of the books in the course literature.
Deadline for literature review: July 28. Upload to Canvas. Read each others texts before week 31.
You will also watch the video lectures XXX uploaded to Canvas.
August
Week 31
Members of each group have read all five texts in the group and prepared questions.
Monday, 09:00-12:00, Seminar, Literature review (group of 7)
Monday, 13:00-16:00, Seminar, Literature review (group of 6)
Tuesday, 09:00-12:00, Seminar, Literature review (group of 6)
Tuesday, 13:00-16:00, Seminar, Literature review (group of 6)
Wednesday, 09:00-12:00, Group tutorial, Group 1A (5 students)
Wednesday, 13:00-16:00, Group tutorial, Group 1B (5 students)
Thursday, 09:00-12:00, Group tutorial, Group 2A (5 students)
Thursday, 13:00-16:00, Group tutorial, Group 2B (5 students)
Friday, 09:00-12:00, Group tutorial, Group 2C (5 students)
Week 32
Tuesday, 09:00-11:00, Lecture by Eva-Teréz Göllin on image production
Wednesday, 09:00-16:00, Individual tutorial of 25 minutes with Eva-Teréz (book through Doodle link)
Thursday, 09:00-16:00, Individual tutorial of 25 minutes with Eva-Teréz (book through Doodle link)
Week 33
Tuesday, 09:00-16:00, End presentation, full class
Wednesday, 09:00-16:00, End presentation, full class
Week 34
Wednesday, 09:00-12:00 Feedback on end presentation and course evaluation
Literature List
Please observe that you are not supposed to buy/borrow all of the titles. In the course, you are supposed to chose ONE book and then write a Literature Review. Please get acquainted with the titles below and then make a choice of one book to write about.
Find the course syllabus and literature list by searching on the course name or course code in the database for syllabi.
Link to syllabus: https://kursplaner.gu.se/pdf/kurs/en/FOG218
Literature
Edwards Steve, Photography: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
ISBN: 9780192801647 (English version)
Edwards Steve, Fotografi – en introduktion. Stockholm: Raster Förlag, 2007
ISBN: 9789187215773 (Svensk version)
Warner Marien Mary, Photography A Cultural History. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2010
ISBN: 9781856696661
Berger John, Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin Classics, 2008
ISBN: 9780141035796
Or as link: http://www.ubu.com/film/berger_seeing.html (Links to an external site.)
Flusser Vilém, Towards a Philosophy of Photography. London: Reaktion, 2000
ISBN: 9781861890764
Mitchell W.J.T., What do pictures want? Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005
ISBN: 9780226532455
Sontag Susan, On Photography. London: Penguin Classics, 2008
ISBN: 9780141035789
Framing bodies. – 1. ed. / editors/redaktörer: Dragana Vujanovic, Louise Wolthers. – Stockholm : Art and Theory publishing; Göteborg: Hasselbladstiftelsen, 2015
Östlind Niclas, Published: Photobooks in Sweden, London: Koenig Books, 2018.
ISBN: 9783960984757
Gardfors Johan, Jansson Mats, Olsson Nils (red), Att skriva med ljus: 13 essäer om litteratur och fotografi Göteborg: Makadam, 2021
ISBN: 9789170613111