STUDY PROGRAMME
Photography and Visual design

AFAM CODE
APBR31

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Photography

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Digital photography

CREDITS
8

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course focuses, in particular, on three topics. The first part revolves around the relation between photography and publishing, both as periodical publishing (magazines) and books. Starting with a study of the publishing system (local and international, large and small publishing houses), the peculiarities of working on these supports are analysed both from a photographer’s point of view, and from a curator’s and editor’s viewpoint. Special attention is devoted to self-publishing, that is artist’s books, with the analysis of their recent history, production methods, financing and distribution.

The second topic is the relation between photography and web, in recent years a vital channel for the presentation and diffusion of images. Beside studying specific case-histories, the course will introduce web strategies and work processes from websites to blogs, to social networks. The third part of the course deals with photography rights. Italian, European and international norms are explained in details, both for what concerns the publishing of images on magazines, books, web, and their use in different contexts. Copyright and author’s rights are analysed from a legal and financial point of view, evaluating possibilities and limits in the use of others’ images, as well as the possible revenues linked to the use of the own ones.

The total CFA credits for this course are 8. The course includes the following didactic sections:

• PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

• VISUAL STUDIES

• PHOTOGRAPHY MARKETS

• CORPORATE PRODUCTION

Successful students will be able to:

• Develop photography projects for publishing, both for magazines and for books

• Work as photo editors at publishing houses or other publishing contexts

• Create and finance independent publications

• Develop photography projects for the web

• Use the web as a tool to propagate their work

• Work within the photography system in observance of the enforced law for what concerns copyright and author’s rights

• Legally safeguard their own work as photographers, artists, and authors

The course contents include in-depth study of the following topics:

• The publishing environment

• Photography magazines

• Use of photography in different types of magazines.

• Photobooks

• Self-publishing

• Photo editing

• Photography and web

• Photo blogs

• Photography and social networks

• Photography law

This is a theoretical/project based course Throughout 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

The didactic sections that are part of the course will be assessed separately. The final grade will result from the weighted average of the didactic sections marks. The assessment will be based on:

• Oral exam

• Presentation of projects

• Assessed revisions or mid-term tests

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

• Trigari, Eleonora, Il diritto nella fotografia, Aracne, Roma 2015.

• Salvo dell’Arte, Fotografia e Diritto, UTET Giuridica, Torino 2015.

• AAVV, Il diritto dell’arte, Skira, Milano 2014.

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.