Learning outcomes
This course aims to make students capable:
- To explore the relationship and reciprocal stimuli between photography and other arts during the 20th century.
- To understand how and to what extent the various socio-political conditions that prevailed in various developed countries of the West, especially during the interwar period, played a significant role in the birth and development of aesthetic photographic currents.
- To understand the work of the great and well-known photographers of the period and the influences that this exerted on many generations of photographers in the years that followed.
- To understand that the need for information gave birth to the big and well-known magazines and what role did the integration in those of the photographic reporting play.
- To teach the photographic techniques of the period.
General Competences
- Understanding the great aesthetic and technological changes brought about by the photograph of the “democratization” of the medium
- -Analysis of the effects observed since the beginning of the 19th century and onwards with the industrialization and mass production of cameras.
Course Outline
- The photomontages of the interwar period: photography and artistic movements
- The photographer Man Ray / France
- The Bauhaus School / Germany
- The photograph in the Soviet Union / USSR / Alex. Rochenko.
- Farm Security Administration. / USA
- The photo after World War II. Subjective photography
- Humanist / humanitarian photography
- The development of photojournalism and the role of magazines of various subjects (eg LIFE)
ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Jeffrey, Ian. Translation: Hercules Papaioannou, Photography. A concise History (Athens, PHOTOGRAPHOS publications), 1996
- Papaioannou, Iraklis, Greek Photography & Photography in Athens of Greece, NEFELI, 2013
- Papadimitropoulos, Panagiotis, The subject and photography, Thessaloniki, University Studio Press, 2017
- Xanthakis, Alkis. History of Photographic Aesthetics, Athens, Aigokeros, 1994
- Bellone, Roger, & Felle, Luc, Histoire mondiale de la photo en couleurs, Paris, Hachette, 1981
- Lavodine, Bertrand, L’autochrome Lumière, Paris, CTHS, 2009
- Szarkowski, John. Photography Until Now. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1989. Wells, Liz, Photography: A Critical Introduction, Abingdon, Routledge, 2009.
- Nickel, Douglas R., History of Photography: the State of Research, Art Bulletin 83, 2001
- SOULAGES, François, Esthétique de la photographie – La perte et le reste, Colin, Paris, 2005.
- Bright, Susan: [Translation from English to French: Eric Kohut]. La photographie contemporaine, Paris, Textuel, 2005.
- Frizot, Michel, Nouvelle histoire de la photographie, Paris, Bordas, 1994
- Lemagny, Jean-Claude, La photographie – Tendances des années 1950-1980, CNDP, 2002