Learning Results
The aim of the course is the ability of students to get acquainted with the Greek peculiarities of the medium, the historical approach of the space, documentary photography and social issues in Greece and to be able to express a more complex photographic narrative on specialized topics.
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 Greek photography and photojournalism in Greece in the early period, the photojournalism in Greece from the beginning of the 20th century to the Second World War, Albanian War-Occupation-Civil War, the case of Lazaros Akermanidis and Manolis Megalokonomou, the images of the Occupation and the photographic look of Kostas Paraschos, the battle of Decemberians in Athens and the depiction of the events by DmitriKessel, the photographic look of Kostas Balafas and Spyros Meletzis, the life and work of Voula Papaioannou, the photographers Stelios Kassimatis and Dimitris Charisiadis, the propaganda photography in Greece and Apostolos Ververis, the photography of social reflection and the work of Dimitris Tloupas, Dimitris Letsios and Iasonas Apostolidis, the photographers of the Polytechnic University in 1973 Aristotle Sarikostas and Vasilis Karamanolis, foreign photographers-photojournalists who create in Greece.
The semiology of the photographs in photojournalism in Greece.
Workshop
Complex photographic exercises that have as their main idea the meaning of the narrative. As in every workshop there will be critical analysis of the final works with references to other contemporary photographers and works. Weaknesses will be identified but also original and creative initiatives will be supported during its development. There will be clear references to how the narrative is presented, either in electronic or printed form.
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Γρηγόρη Βλασσά, Η Φωτογραφία Ντοκουμέντου στην Ελλάδα 1940-1981, Athens, Photo Imaging Group Publications, 2008.
- Γρηγόρη Βλασσά, Επάγγελμα Φωτορεπόρτερ, Athens, Photo Imaging Group Publications, 2002.
- Michel Poivert, La photographie contamporaine Ed Flammarion
- Susan Bright Art photography now Ed Thames et Hudson
- Nan Goldin Soeurs Saintes et Sibylles Ed du Regard
- Alec Soth Niagara Ed Steidi
- Γρηγόρη Βλασσά, «Ο φωτογράφος Ιάσων Αποστολίδης», Athens, Eolos Publications, Αθήνα, 2004.
- Γρηγόρη Βλασσά, Όψεις του Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού, Athens, Photo Imaging Group Publications, 2012.