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ON CURATION AND PUBLISHING

Course Code:

Π-7010

Semester:

7st Semester

Specialization Category:

ΜΕ

Course Hours:

5

ECTS:

5


Learning outcomes

  • Knowledge of the history of the photo book and its current production practices
  • Guidelines on the basic knowledge needed to understand the photobook production practices
  • Developing skills for independent and personal learning
  • Ability to organize and process an integrated photo unit
  • Ability to produce photographic series that are conceptually and stylistically associated
  • Ability to think and create structured concepts
  • Ability to critically analyze the working process and the final results
  • Osmosis in a rich, varied, challenging and experimental production of photo albums

 

General Competences

  • Research, analyze and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Decision making
  • Autonomous work
  • Teamwork
  • Working in an international environment
  • Exercise of criticism and self-criticism
  • Project design and management
  • Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
  • Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Promote free, creative and inductive thinking

 

Course Outline

Lectures

The Photobook from the early stages in photography’s history constitutes for the photographer a powerful communication tool with a wider audience. The Photobook in comparison to exhibition space provides the photographer with the ability to creatively manage his/her work in a higher level.

  • The term photobook and its origin. The first photobook productions
  • The Photobook as an art product in itself. The shape and its function.
  • Picture juxtaposition and narrative creation through the photobook pages. Historical study examples from exhibition catalogues like foto-auge / photo-eye (1929), The Photographer’s Eye, 1964 by the curators Franz Roh, Jan Tschichold and John Szarkowski.
  • The creative combination of different photographic genres in a photographic publication
  • The appropriation and creative management of photographs taken from books, mass media publications and the internet
  • Study of contemporary photobook production
  • Self publishing photographers and work from independed publishers with a limited copies.

 

PRACTICE PART OF THE COURSE

Producing a photobook

Aim of the practice part of the course is the production of a photobook ( design, images, essay). The produced photobook will have a central idea-subject with images that the student will create during its production or it could be images from past years that the student will develop furthermore.
The range covered by the photobook production is wide and includes all the photobook examples that have been discussed in the meetings. There is also the possibility to apply the methodology of a research or to demonstrate a more personal approach to a subject
Finally, it is possible to appropriate existing photographic material from books, publications and the Internet.The text supporting the images should be in the form of a research

 

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Armstrong, Carol Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875, MIT Press, 1998.
  • Di Bello, Patrizia, Wilson, Colette , Zamir, Shamoon (eds) The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond I. B. Tauris, 2012.
  • Colberg,J., Understanding Photobooks:  The Form and Content of the Photographic Book, A focal Press Book, Toutledge, 2017.
  • Fernandez, Horacio, Fotografica Publica: Photography in Print 1919-1939, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2000.
  • Parr, Martin & Badger, Gerry,  The Photobook: A History Volume I, Phaidon Press , 2004.
  • Parr, Martin & Badger, Gerry,  The Photobook: A History Volume II, Phaidon Press, 2006.
  • Parr, Martin & Badger, Gerry,  The Photobook: A History Volume III, Phaidon Press, 2014.
  • Parr, Martin, The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present, Aperture, 2015.
  • Ritchin, Fred &  Naggar, Carol,  Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonne, Phaidon Press, 2016 Roth, Andrew The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century,  2001
  • Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present , Lars Müller Publishers, 2011.
  • Stimson, Blake The Pivot of the World: Photography and its Nation, MIT Press, 2006.
  • James Sarah E., Common Ground: German Photographic Cultures across the Iron Curtain , Yale, 2013