CINEMA AND PHOTOGRAPHY - I
- Academic year
- 2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- CINEMA E FOTOGRAFIA I
- Course code
- EM3F25 (AF:512383 AR:292392)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6 out of 12 of CINEMA AND PHOTOGRAPHY
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- L-ART/06
- Period
- 1st Term
- Course year
- 1
- Moodle
- Go to Moodle page
Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
Students will acquire an in-depth knowledge of a series of questions related to the history and theory of photography, with a special focus on the practices of reappropriation, retouch and redistribution of images in the contemporary iconosphere.
2. Capacity of applying knowledge and understanding:
Students will learn how to approach the history and theory of photography from the vantage point of research perspectives which have developed during the last 10-15 years, such as visual culture and media studies. Students will also learn how to discuss some of the issues that will be tackled during the course through the writing of a paper.
3. Capacity of formulating judgments:
Students will learn how to develop original or partly original ideas and how to elaborate a critical judgment concerning certain aspects of the history and theory of photography, with a special focus on the topics discussed during the course.
4. Communicational skills:
Within the framework of seminar-like discussions, students will learn how to articulate ideas with the appropriate language and share them with the professor and fellow students.
5. Learning skills:
Students will acquire the appropriate conceptual and analytical skills that will allow them to analyse the issues discussed in class. They will learn how to study and discuss written texts, in a constant confrontation with the professor and fellow students, as well as how to write an academic paper, accompanied by notes, bibliography, images and captions.
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
(the following book provides a historical-theoretical contextualisation of photography as art)
1. David Bate, "Art Photography", Tate Publishing, London, 2015.
(the following essays are collected in the folder "dispensa" on Moodle and will be discussed in class to facilitate understanding):
2. Cristina Baldacci, ‘Re-Presenting Art History: An Unfinished Process’, "Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Practicies in Contemporay Arts and Theory", ed. by C. Baldacci, C. Nicastro, A. Sforzini, ICI Berlin Press, Berlin, 2022, pp. 173-82.
3. Cristina Baldacci, ‘Recirculation: The Wandering of Digital Images in Post-Internet Art’, "Re-: An Errant Glossary", ed. by C.F.E. Holzhey, A. Wedemeyer, Berlino, ICI Berlin Press, Berlin, 2019, pp. 25-33.
4. Cristina Baldacci, ‘Reenactment: Errant Images in Contemporary Art’,"Re-: An Errant Glossary", ed. by C.F.E. Holzhey, A. Wedemeyer, Berlino, ICI Berlin Press, Berlin, 2019, pp. 57-67.
5. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, ‘Allegorical Procedures: Appropriation and Montage in Contemporary Art’, "Artforum", 21.1 (September 1982), pp. 43-56.
6. Charlotte Cotton, 'Revived and Remade', in "The Photograph as Contemporary Art" (chapter 7), Thames & Hudson, London, 2020, pp.
7. Douglas Crimp, ‘The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism’, “October”, vol. 15 (inverno, 1980), pp. 91-101.
8. Douglas Crimp, ‘Pictures’ (1977), "October", vol. 8 (Spring 1979), pp. 75-88.
9. Georges Didi-Huberman, ‘Rendere un’immagine’, in "aut aut", 348 (October-December 2010), pp. 6-27 (French ed. 2010).
10. Rosalind Krauss, ‘The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodernist Repetition’, "October", vol. 18 (Autumn 1981), pp. 47-66.
11. André Gunthert, ‘La cultura della condivisione o la rivincita delle masse’, "L’immagine condivisa. La fotografia digitale", It. trans. G. Boni, Contrasto, Rome, 2016, pp. 97-112 (original ed. in French 2015).
12. Dieter Roelstraete, ‘Ri-fare: l’eterno ritorno dell’oggetto’, in "When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013", ed. by G. Celant, exhibition catalogue, Prada Foundation, Milan 2013, pp. 664-667.
NB: It is advisable to contact the professor for specific requests or particular language needs about the bibliography for the exam.
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Further information
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