The workshop aims to study issues, styles, authors, and contemporary photography tendencies, considering the possibilities opened for exhibition and display in contemporary media. Frontal lessons, activities, and group sessions will engage the students with photography practices, considering both the relationship with history and the actual possibilities for photographic production and its recent uses.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
Essays from "Fotografia e culture visuali del XXI secolo", ed. by Enrico Menduni and Lorenzo Marmo with Giacomo Ravesi, Roma TrE-Press, Roma 2018, http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/libro/fotografia-e-culture-visuali-del-xxi-secolo/.
Mutuazione: 20710193 LABORATORIO DI FOTOGRAFIA CONTEMPORANEA E DISPLAY FOTOGRAFICO in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 DE PASCALIS ILARIA ANTONELLA
Programme
At first, the classes will be dedicated to the analysis of photographic images by the teacher and the students. The following lessons will be focused on specific photographic genres (i.e., fashion photography, street photography, portraits, remix, society and politics, etc.). The second part of each class will be dedicated to the creation of photographic projects, that the groups will present in the last encounters.Core Documentation
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and "A Short History of Photography"Essays from "Fotografia e culture visuali del XXI secolo", ed. by Enrico Menduni and Lorenzo Marmo with Giacomo Ravesi, Roma TrE-Press, Roma 2018, http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/libro/fotografia-e-culture-visuali-del-xxi-secolo/.
Type of delivery of the course
30 hours of frontal lessons and workshops.Attendance
The presence is mandatory; there is the possibility to be absent a maximum of 3 times during the whole workshop, excluding the last days, when students have to present their group projects.Type of evaluation
Attendance and active participation during classes are needed, as well as meet the assigned original photographic project, to be realized by groups of 2-4 people. teacher profile teaching materials
Essays from "Fotografia e culture visuali del XXI secolo", ed. by Enrico Menduni and Lorenzo Marmo with Giacomo Ravesi, Roma TrE-Press, Roma 2018, http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/libro/fotografia-e-culture-visuali-del-xxi-secolo/.
Programme
At first, the classes will be dedicated to the analysis of photographic images by the teacher and the students. The following lessons will be focused on specific photographic genres (i.e., fashion photography, street photography, portraits, remix, society and politics, etc.). The second part of each class will be dedicated to the creation of photographic projects, that the groups will present in the last encounters.Core Documentation
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and "A Short History of Photography"Essays from "Fotografia e culture visuali del XXI secolo", ed. by Enrico Menduni and Lorenzo Marmo with Giacomo Ravesi, Roma TrE-Press, Roma 2018, http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/libro/fotografia-e-culture-visuali-del-xxi-secolo/.
Reference Bibliography
Roland Barthes, "Camera Lucida", 1980 Rosalind Krauss, "Le Photographique: Pour une Théorie des Écarts", 1990 Susan Sontag, "On Photography", 1977, and "Regarding the Pain of Others", 2003 More bibliographic suggestions and references will be given during classes. These references are just suggestions, and are not mandatory.Type of delivery of the course
30 hours of frontal lessons and workshops.Attendance
The presence is mandatory; there is the possibility to be absent a maximum of 3 times during the whole workshop, excluding the last days, when students have to present their group projects.Type of evaluation
Attendance and active participation during classes are needed, as well as meet the assigned original photographic project, to be realized by groups of 2-4 people.