The History of Photography
Purpose of the Assignment Learners will carry out research into the processes, techniques and photographers who transformed photography from early beginnings to the sophisticated medium that we know today. They will analyse the technical and aesthetic changes that have both helped and hindered the acceptance of photography as socially responsible documentation and develop and argument for the role of photography as an art form. To achieve this unit, a learner will: Understand the work and contribution to photography of photographers between 1825 and 1870. Understand the work and contribution to photography of photographers between 1920 and 1945. Understand the work and contribution to photography of photographers between 1950 and the present. Understand how the genre of landscape photography has progressed. Understand how the introduction of digital photography has changed the practice of photography. Scenario You are the Photographer in Residence at the Open Eye Museum in Liverpool.