Fotojornalismo: História, Teoria e Prática (not translated)
Code
711011076
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Maria Margarida Godinho
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1) Acknowledging the main core marks of the History of Photojournalism from its origins to contemporary and its relationship with the History of Photographic techniques;
2) Acknowledging different styles not only in an evolutionary perspective, but also in a transversal scope, and the different strategies they imply;
3) Identifying theoretical problems at work in photojournalism, namely the relationship between media, communication and globalization, through a panoply of critical texts;
4) Constructing a coherent photojournalistic portfolio;
5) Being able of explain the portfolio critically.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Photography and its different representation programs;
2. The beginnings of Photojournalism: Roger Fenton and Matthew Brady
3. The photojournalism and the press: technical problems and solutions. The invention of the haltone and its consequences in the illustrated Press.
4. The third generation of Illustrated Press: the 30s and the boom of illustrated magazines (Life, Picture Post, Illustrierte Arbeit Zeitung, Vu, Ilustração Portuguesa).
5. The paradigmatic case of portuguese Photojournalism: Joshua Benoliel.
6. The Photographic Agencies: Magnum Photo and the beginning of the authorship issue in Photojournalism.
7. Contemporary Photojournalism and critical approaches.
Bibliography
1. Rosenblum, History of Photography. New York, Abbeville Press, 2008.
2. Magnum, 50 years of Photographies. Paris/ Nova Iorque, 1994.
3. Burgin, Victor, Thinking Photography. Londres, Macmillan, 1982.
4. Berger, John, Photographs of Agony, in Lis Wells (org.), The Photography Reader. Londres/ nova Iorque, 2003.
5. Lugon, Olivier le Style Documentaire. Paris, Macula, 2006.
Teaching method
The methodology consists on:
1-open presentation by the teacher of the main themes of the syllabus;
2-debate and criticism of texts previously read by students;
3-students presentation of small photographic assignments in order to prepare themselves to the final portfolio.
Evaluation method