M7-Overview & Objectives

Module 7 - The Camera Arts

OVERVIEW

This module provides an overview of the camera arts and how they’re used. They include:

• Film photography
• Photography’s impact on traditional media
• Issues of From and Content
• Darkroom Processes
• The Human Element
• Color Images
• Photojournalism
• Modern Developments
• Digital photography
• Time based mediums including motion pictures, video, digital streaming images

The invention of the camera and its ability to capture an image with light became the first “high tech” artistic medium of the Industrial Age. Developed during the middle of the nineteenth century, the photographic process changed forever our physical perception of the world and created an uneasy but important relationship between the photograph and other more traditional artistic media.

OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of this module, you should be able to:

• Explain the effect photography has on traditional artistic media
• Communicate how time-based mediums affect issues of content 
• Compare and contrast different photographic processes
• Recognize and explain issues of form and content in photographs
• Explain the three elements of photojournalism
• Describe the effects photojournalism has on the news media