20703403 - HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

This course provides students with an overview on the history of photography, its social functions and its role within the wider history of the technically reproduced image. The course discusses its relations with painting and visual arts and connections with the visual devices of contemporaneity: cinema, TV, video, internet, including digital photography.

Curriculum

Mutuazione: 20703403 STORIA E CRITICA DELLA FOTOGRAFIA in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 (docente da definire)

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Programme

Theoric contextualisation of photographic experience in the chronologies and histories of art, in relation to Cinema, Television, Sound and Arts histories: focus on the Italian case.

Core Documentation

- Claudio Marra, Fotografia e arti visive, Carocci Roma 2014;

- Three essays downloadable from the web and included in the volume:
E. Menduni, L. Marmo (a cura di), Fotografia e culture visuali del XXI secolo, RomaTrE-Press 2018
(http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/ojs/index.php/fotografia).


Reference Bibliography

- W. Benjamin, Breve storia della fotografia, Passigli Firenze 2014; - E. Ugenti, Immagini nella Rete, Mimesis Milano-Udine 2016; - M.Costa, L'uomo fuori di sé, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2018. FILMOGRAPHY: Video and photo art works from the '50s to the present, otherwise not available.

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons; viewing and commenting on audiovisual operas(films, Video Art, documentaries, TV programs); chronological and etymological analysis of Photography and Cinema histories, Arts and Media; partecipation in conferences, festivals and specialized events indicated by the Teacher during the course.

Attendance

Lectures and Analysis of Case studies

Type of evaluation

The exam consists of a 3 hour written test, structured in open-ended questions taken from the exam's bibliography, proposed by the Commission but chosen by each student, in order to verify the level of effective understanding of the concepts. Particular attention is paid to the student's ability to understand, interpretate and analyze critically the proposed texts. The attending students must also deliver a text about the topics of each single lesson: in preparation and integration of the final exam.