- Providing the basis for telling, to translate an event into an image as a visual synthesis of narration
- Learning e difference between lies and truth in photography
- Writing with light and words: practical exercises
- Learning the confrontation: meetings and interviews with professionals, journalists and / or other related personalities
- Learning e difference between lies and truth in photography
- Writing with light and words: practical exercises
- Learning the confrontation: meetings and interviews with professionals, journalists and / or other related personalities
teacher profile teaching materials
The work of the main personalities who have marked the history of photojournalism will be retraced, as well as the relationship between myth and reality of the profession, between the aspiration to objectivity and the compromises of the editorial chain, between denunciation and censorship, from its origins to the present day. From the golden age of magazines to war photography. The current crisis of the profession. The new challenges of information through images to the aestheticisation and decontextualisation of journalistic photography in the digital age.
Elements of knowledge will be provided on the themes of digital manipulation, debunking of 'hoaxes' in the age of fakenews, political storytelling and post-truth, with an emphasis on the ethics of photography, the main codes of ethics, the legal rules for the use of images and copyright.
The workshop will make students measure themselves directly with the analysis of the snapshots of the major photoreporters and the most significant magazines, enabling them to read them also in relation to the era, the economy, the publishing market, figurative art and the history of the mentality of the societies in which they were taken, so as to contribute to consolidating their overall knowledge of the modern and contemporary age.
Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2004
Pastoureau, Michel. Dizionario dei colori del nostro tempo. Milan: Ponte alle Grazie, 2018 (it may be replaced by pdf of lectures)
Fadigati, Neri. Il mestiere di vedere. Introduction to photojournalism. Pisa University Press, 2019
Lucas, Uliano and Agliani, Tatiana. La realtà e lo sguardo. Storia del fotogiornalismo in Italia. Turin: Einaudi, 2016
Capa, Robert. Slightly Out of Focus. New York: Modern Library, 2001
Morris, John G. Get the Picture. A personal History of Photojournalism, University of Chicago Press, 2002
Pdf (or notes) of classroom lectures
Programme
The course aims to explore the history and present of journalistic photography, its role as a 'window on the world' in modern visual culture and in the formation of what can be considered a 'global consciousness'.The work of the main personalities who have marked the history of photojournalism will be retraced, as well as the relationship between myth and reality of the profession, between the aspiration to objectivity and the compromises of the editorial chain, between denunciation and censorship, from its origins to the present day. From the golden age of magazines to war photography. The current crisis of the profession. The new challenges of information through images to the aestheticisation and decontextualisation of journalistic photography in the digital age.
Elements of knowledge will be provided on the themes of digital manipulation, debunking of 'hoaxes' in the age of fakenews, political storytelling and post-truth, with an emphasis on the ethics of photography, the main codes of ethics, the legal rules for the use of images and copyright.
The workshop will make students measure themselves directly with the analysis of the snapshots of the major photoreporters and the most significant magazines, enabling them to read them also in relation to the era, the economy, the publishing market, figurative art and the history of the mentality of the societies in which they were taken, so as to contribute to consolidating their overall knowledge of the modern and contemporary age.
Core Documentation
Dondero, Mario with Giordana, Emanuele. Lo scatto umano. Viaggio nel fotogiornalismo da Budapest a New York. Bari: Laterza, 2017Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2004
Pastoureau, Michel. Dizionario dei colori del nostro tempo. Milan: Ponte alle Grazie, 2018 (it may be replaced by pdf of lectures)
Fadigati, Neri. Il mestiere di vedere. Introduction to photojournalism. Pisa University Press, 2019
Lucas, Uliano and Agliani, Tatiana. La realtà e lo sguardo. Storia del fotogiornalismo in Italia. Turin: Einaudi, 2016
Capa, Robert. Slightly Out of Focus. New York: Modern Library, 2001
Morris, John G. Get the Picture. A personal History of Photojournalism, University of Chicago Press, 2002
Pdf (or notes) of classroom lectures
Reference Bibliography
Dondero, Mario with Giordana, Emanuele. Lo scatto umano. Viaggio nel fotogiornalismo da Budapest a New York. Bari: Laterza, 2017 Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2004 Gunthert, André. L’image partagée. La photographie numérique. Paris: Textuel, 2015 (provided to students in pdf) Pastoureau, Michel. Dizionario dei colori del nostro tempo. Milan: Ponte alle Grazie, 2018 Fadigati, Neri. Il mestiere di vedere. Introduction to photojournalism. Pisa University Press, 2019 Lucas, Uliano and Agliani, Tatiana. La realtà e lo sguardo. Storia del fotogiornalismo in Italia. Turin: Einaudi, 2016 Capa, Robert. Slightly Out of Focus. New York: Modern Library, 2001 Arnett, Peter. Preface to the essay by Alabiso, Vincent, Chuck Zoeller and Kelly Smith Tunney, eds. Flash! The Associated Press Covers the World. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998. (provided to students in pdf) Morris, John G. Get the Picture. A personal History of Photojournalism, University of Chicago Press, 2002 Pdf (or notes) of classroom lecturesType of delivery of the course
Lessons will be held in presence and the active participation of students is essential. The lectures can be followed in the classroom or online. Attendance is compulsory (maximum 3 absences allowed out of a total of 12 lessons). Course timetable every Friday from 2pm to 5pm, classroom (C3), via Ostiense 236. First lesson: 6 October 2023. October: 6, 13, 20, 27 November: 3, 10, 17, 24 December: 1, 15, 22 January: 12th Student reception hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays h 18.30-20 online on the Faculty Teams network, by appointment to be requested by email (laura.delsere@uniroma3.it)Attendance
Lessons will be held in presence and the active participation of students is essential. The lectures can be followed in the classroom or online. Attendance is compulsory (maximum 3 absences allowed out of a total of 12 lessons). Course timetable every Friday from 2pm to 5pm, classroom (C3), via Ostiense 236. First lesson: 6 October 2023. October: 6, 13, 20, 27 November: 3, 10, 17, 24 December: 1, 15, 22 January: 12th Student reception hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays h 18.30-20 online on the Faculty Teams network, by appointment to be requested by email (laura.delsere@uniroma3.it)Type of evaluation
Attendance and active participation in the lessons will be essential. The final written test (exemption) is scheduled for 12 January 2024. Third element for the evaluation of the students will be the presentation of their own thesis in the classroom. The dissertations produced by the students and presented in the classroom to their course colleagues during the 2021-22 an 2022-23 academic year are published on https://ostienselabuniroma3.altervista.org/ where this year's will also be uploaded. Examination papers will therefore only be used for the recording of credits earned. Attendance at the Workshop is compulsory (maximum 3 absences allowed out of 12 lectures). The students' dissertations are published on the website https://ostienselabuniroma3.altervista.org/ as was the case for the papers produced during the last academic year, composing an overview of the history of photojournalism and some of its most significant protagonists, in terms of themes and monographs. EXAM CALENDAR I twill be published soon.