Universität Wien

080074 VO B430 Special Theories: City and Photography (2022S)

Historical and Contemporary Practices and Representations of Urban Societies

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
MIXED
Moodle

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Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

The lecture could include field trips to exhibitions in Vienna if health requirements due to Covid19 allow.

  • Friday 04.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 18.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 25.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 01.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 08.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 29.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 06.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 13.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 20.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 27.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 03.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 10.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 17.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5
  • Friday 24.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 16 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 5

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

One of the first photographs depicting a human being is dedicated to an urban scene: taken from the window of a multi-story house, the reproduction preserved today shows a street situation with two shilouettes. Not a pose, but a fleeting scene? The tension that arises from pose and chance, observation and inattention, is crucial for the characterization of modern urbanity in the making, and it is no coincidence that it is also inscribed in the Daguerrotypie of 1838. What is the connection between the city and its manifold developments and the medium of photography, its applications and themes?
The lecture traces historical and contemporary situations in which photography as a practice and medium of representation of urban societies sheds light on the relationship between subject, society, and the materialities of the city.
The lecture conveys the themes and approaches of empirical cultural studies' analyses of these diverse historical and contemporary relationships between the city and photography. It illustrates this with a variety of studies on individual cities as well as current exhibitions on the topic. Questions of media change and urban transformation will be discussed in exchange with students. If the pandemic situation allows, 1-2 current exhibitions will be visited.

Assessment and permitted materials

The examen will be in the form of a written exam and will be online if required by health requirements due to Covid19.

Non-exam-immanent course,
Please note the timely registration for one of the four exam dates.

1st examination date: 24.06.2022
2nd examination date: 14.10.2022
3rd examination date: 16.12.2022
4th examination date: 20.01.2023

Resources: literature and online sources also from moodle reading.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Für den erfolgreichen Abschluss der LV sind zumindest 50 von 100 möglichen Punkten zu erreichen.Notenskala:>= 87,5 sehr gut (1)>= 75 gut (2)>= 62,5 befriedigend (3)>= 50 genügend (4)< 50 nicht genügend (5)

Examination topics

Literature available in the library or continuously updated on moodle. Contents of the lecture will be provided as ppt on moodle, if necessary.

Reading list

Selection:
Boeck, Filip de/Sammy Baloji (2016): Suturing the city. Living together in Congo’s urban worlds. London: Autopgrah ABP.

Cuny, Cécile/Alexa Färber/Ulrich Hägele (Hg.) (2014): Fotografie und städtischer Wandel. Fotogeschichte 131/34. 
Dogramaci, Burcu. 2010. „Metropolen im Buch. Großstadtfotografie in den zwanziger und dreißiger Jahren.“ In: Burcu Dogramacu. ed. Großstadt: Motor der Künste in der Moderne. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag. 205-220.
Dominici, Sara (2021): Darkroom networks: Mundane subversiveness for photographic autonomy, 1880s-1900s, photographies, 14:2, 265-286, DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2021.1877186
Hochmann, Nadav/Lev Manovich (2013): Zooming into Instagram City: Reading the local through social media. In: First Monday Vol. 18/7
Martins, Susana S./Anne Reverseau (eds.) (2016): Paper Cities. Urban Portraits in Photographic Books. Leuven University Press: Leuven.
Ponstingl, Michael. 2008. Wien im Bild: Fotobildbände des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wien: Brandstätter.
Stierli, Martino (2010): Las Vegas im Rückspiegel. Die Stadt in Theorie, Fotografie und Film. Zürich.
Kacel, Ela/Sowa, Axel (eds.) (2012): Visual Urbanism. Special Issue Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge. 12.

Association in the course directory

EC 140

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