Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is the students to understand and apply the concept of photographic storytelling.
During the semester they will acquire those skills that will allow them, through a small number of photographs, to express a personal view of the modern world in which they live.
General Abilities
- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Decision – making
- Standalone work
- Teamwork
- Working in an international environment
- Criticize and self-criticism
- Demonstration of social, professional and moral responsibility and gender sensitivity
- Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking
Course Outline
THEORY
The prehistory of the photographic reportage and its evolution until the interwar period, the photojournalism in the interwar years, the evolution of photojournalism through the eyes of renowned creators, news photographers, documentary photographers. Types of photojournalism, political, parliamentary, economic, free, judicial. Staged photographs in the press, international news agencies, war photojournalism, photojournalism through the eyes of acclaimed creators such as Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Josef Koudelka, Sabastiao Salgado, Bruce Davidson, August Sander, Alexander Rodcenko, and others. International news agencies and photogalleries.
Workshop part : Photographic projects evolving around the idea of the narrative signification through two-dimensional representation. Applications related to photography and current affairs will be researched, snapshot, street photography, storytelling/narrative, space in the two-dimensional image.
WORKSHOP
In the workshop part of the coursewe will have weekly or 15-day practice projects, depending on the degree of difficulty of the projects, critical analysis dialoguewill unfold, with references to modern photographers and works, weaknesses will be identified but also original and creative initiatives will be supported.
In the last 2 courses, an overview of the semester’s work will be attempted.
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Βλασσά Γρηγόρη, Όψεις του Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού, Athens, Photo Imaging Group Publications, 2012.
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