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  4. Documentary Photography
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Last Updated: 30/09/2026

Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
FOT104 - Documentary Photography VI. SEMESTER 2 +2 4.5
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Area Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) DOÇ. DR. DEVRİM DENİZ EROL
Mode of Delivery The mode of delivery of this course is face-to-face
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Prerequisites There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
Courses Recomended FOT 201 Basic Photography
Recommended Resources Temsil. Stuart Hall.Fotoğraf ve Toplum. Gisele FreundBasın Fotoğrafçılığı. Pierre Jean AmarThe History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present. Beaumont NewhallEncyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Ed. John HannavyBaşkalarının Acısına Bakmak. Susan Sontag.Walter Benjamin. Fotoğrafın Kısa Tarihi.İzmler-Fotoğrafı Anlamak. Emma Lewis.Magnum Agency: www.magnumphotos.comVII Agency: viiphoto.comLife-Time magazine: time.com/photography/life/World Press Photo: www.worldpressphoto.org PDFs, books and articles to be provided and recommended by the faculty member; Websites about photography and photographers.
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Meeting, course introduction and student expectations
Week - 2 The invention of photography and its relationship with the socio-cultural, economic and scientific codes of the period. Introduction to photographic theories: Reality, realism, and photography.
Week - 3 Introduction to photographic theories: The relationship between reality and documentary photography through examples. How does documentary photography differ from other photographs?
Week - 4 The first documentarians: R. Adamson, O. Hill, E. Atget et al. Anthropology and photography: S. Bourne, E. Curtis et al.
Week - 5 Social documentarians: L.Hine, J. Riss; FSA, Fikret Otyam. Working class photography and its difference from other types of documentary photography.
Week - 6 F64, Photo Leage, New Documents.
Week - 7 MIDTERM
Week - 8 Changing documentary photography
Week - 9 Agencies, documentary photography and photographers
Week - 10 Classical project and presentation methods; new possibilities in new media
Week - 11 Identification and distribution of student projects
Week - 12 Feedback and interactions regarding student projects
Week - 13 Latest feedback on student projects and presentation methods
Week - 14 Students presenting their projects in the classroom environment

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