STUDY PROGRAMME
Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies

AFAM CODE
ABPR31

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Photography

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Photography

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course starts with the study of photography as a preferential expressive media to understand the contemporary imagination, as well as the anthropological and social research. The students are encouraged to develop personal or group projects, experimenting with photo and video techniques.

The programme consists of one single module, which grants 6 CFA credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Develop deep understanding of the historic, artistic, cultural, social and economic roots of contemporary photography

• Apply historic research tools to the search for project references

• Enhance their practical and analytical skills to be used in the creation of images

• History of photography

• Visual culture and related historic contexts

• Geopolitical context and contemporary visual arts

• Design and production of a visual project

This is a theoretical/project based course. Over the course, the students will carry out didactic activities that are functional to achieving the learning goals, that in all modules may include:

• Classroom lectures

• Exercises and revisions

• Field trips

• Development of individual projects

• Individual study and research

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools for detailed study

Assessment is based on the overall competence of the students and may include:

• Oral exam

• Written exam

• Submission of papers, projects or research work

Further details on specific tests can be provided by the professor during the course. Assessment criteria include commitment, active participation and personal growth of the students during the course.

• Krauss, R. (1990), Le Photographique : Pour une théorie des écarts. Translated by Marc Bloch and Jean Kempf, Paris: Macula.

• Virilio Paul (1989), Esthètique de la disparition, Paris: Editions Galilèe.

• Cotton, C. (2004), The Photograph as Contemporary Art, London: Thames & Hudson.

• Adams, R. (1981), Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values, New York: Aperture.

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professor during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.