Programme

The laboratory intends to develop and deepen the themes, styles, authors and trends of contemporary photography with a special regard to the photographic display, intended as exhibitions and therefore the natural outcome of many of the contemporary photographic projects.
Contemporary photography and its, so to speak, “phototelling” will therefore be the topic on which the lessons and work sessions will be based.

Core Documentation

Mandatory texts

Walter Benjamin, L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica – arte e società di massa, Torino, Einaudi.

Roland Barthes, La camera chiara, Torino Einaudi.

Alessandra Mauro, Photoshow – le mostre che hanno segnato la storia della fotografia, Roma, Contrasto, 2014

During the work and study sessions, other texts will be recommended and provided.


Recommended texts

Charlotte Cotton, La fotografia come arte contemporanea, Torino, Einaudi, 2015

Giuliana Bruno, Pubbliche intimità – architetture e atri visive, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2007

Type of delivery of the course

The laboratory will in fact be divided into 3 parts: - elements of the history of photography; - brief history of photographic exhibitions as a possibility to show, realise and present a visual and photographic project; - Practice. In addition to visiting the photographic Exhibitions presented in the city of Rome, themes and problems related to the photographic display will be analized, working individually and in groups on original exhibition projects.

Type of evaluation

The final exam will consist in the elaboration of an exhibition layout, completed by an introduction text.