Macdonald, Iain
(2012)
Why Throw the Negs Out
with the Bathwater?
A Study of Students’
Attitudes to Digital and Film
Photographic Media.
International Journal of Art and Design Education, 31 (2).
pp. 191-211.
ISSN 1476-8062
Abstract
As today’s digital applications hold our gaze and
become increasingly ubiquitous, it is easy to
dismiss the previous technologies and
processes that provided yesterday’s creative
opportunities. Photography has been revolutionised by digital capture and transmission in
the past decade. It could be argued that there is
a digital orthodoxy in education, which has
democratized and engaged increasing numbers
of students, and has had a particular influence in
A Level Photography. Over the past decade
many traditional darkrooms have been replaced
by computer suites. My concern is that if
secondary schools and colleges with the facilities to teach film are forced to convert to a singular digital mode, we may be throwing the negs
out with the bathwater.
This study uses qualitative and quantitative
research that I have undertaken at a Further
Education college in England. It explores
students’ attitudes to learning Photography
with an artistic curiosity, which includes experiential learners, and those that eschew the digital
age who are content with the organic variety of
analogue learning that film offers. They make
their own case for maintaining the opportunity
to learn through hybrid activity that embraces
both media, for a multiplicity of learning opportunities and media that are not limited by any
orthodoxy, digital or otherwise.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
photography; orthodoxy; digital; analogue;
pedagogy; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Design Innovation |
| Item ID: |
12774 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2012.01735.x |
| Depositing User: |
Iain Macdonald
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| Date Deposited: |
20 Apr 2020 10:14 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
International Journal of Art and Design Education |
| Publisher: |
Wiley |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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