Objectives
The aim is to train and motivate students to engage in photography. The goal is to motivate them to criticise photography in the context of recent events in the world of art.
Outcomes
Students analyse aesthetic, political, economic and other problems through photographs, where photography becomes a means of mediation between symbolic production and consumption. A photographer examines the features of modernity and produces visual representation.
Course content
Lectures
Photography. Photography as a picture of the world. Photography as a symptom of difference between what it is and seeing what it is. Movement mapping. Photography and the jargon of activism. Photography and political emancipation. Photography as a visual text. Photography phrases and idioms. Photography as a world of simulacra. Photography as a self-reflexive expression. Photography and transformation of the everyday. Photography as a media experience. Digital photography and strategies of multimedia presentation. Photography and ambient art. Photography and performance. Photography and sculpture. Photography and painting. Photography and graphic design. The photographer’s intentions: towards the institution of art (and the market). Press problems and photo settings.
Research work
Through research work, students analyse references from contemporary photography and carry out photography exercises, that is, software processing and photo printing.
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