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Presentation
Presentation
The revitalization of historical and/or alternative photographic processes, as well as the growing interest in experimental and sustainable practices, encourage the introduction of this UC as an autonomous discipline, capable of providing students with alternative laboratory technical skills. This CU will promote a theoretical-practical reflection on the possible relationships between camera and cameraless, thus investigating the ontological conditions of photography, as well as the conditions of the technological apparatus. Processes such as antotype, cyanotype, luminograms, chemigrams, among other processes, will be explored.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Master Degree | Semestral | 8
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT6611-24433
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
The program of this UC will be guided by a historical review of the concept of 'experimental photography', as well as an investigation into contemporary and sustainable approaches to artisanal and laboratory photographic practices. - History of contact printing processes; - History of cameraless photography and experimental photography; - Photography and technique: the performative and subversive character of the practice of cameraless photography; - State of the art: analysis and reflection on authorial projects; - Composition and representation; - Plasticity and aesthetic dimension; - Supports and manufacturing processes; - Raw materials and extraction methods; - Stability and permanence; - Other.
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Objectives
Objectives
Throughout the course, students will have contact with alternative forms of photographic creation, working on their autonomy and expanding the field of understanding about the photographic. Identification and understanding of the technical and aesthetic specificities of different photographic processes. Ability to establish a holistic dialogue between image and matter. Ability to identify the importance of good laboratory practices and supports in the plasticity of evidence and photographic objects. Notion of camera-less photography, deepening dialogues between experienced reality and experience. Ability to work supports, shapes, scale, textures and colors, finding new meanings, through different procedural modes thinking about meaning and representation Ability to develop tools that will contribute to your artistic practice.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
The interspersing of theoretical classes with practical classes, of a laboratory nature, allows for a fluid and organic dynamic that will be worked on according to the learning objectives of this CU. The exploratory character of the CU, particularly with regard to the performative field of cameraless photography, also aims to stimulate and promote automatic thinking processes, aimed at exploring a language able to address the photographic object as something beyond its structural materiality.
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References
References
Christopher, James. The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, 2nd edition, Delmar Cengage Learning, New York, 2007. Fletcher, Hannah (ed.) Re*Source, London: The Sustainable Darkroom, 2022. Maughan-Carr, Edward. The Ecology of Grain: An Ecological Analysis of Gelatin in Photographic Film, London: Royal College of Art, 2019. Pardo, Andrés. Back to Basics: A Guide to Ecological Photo Chemistry, 2024. Parikka, J.. What is media archeology? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. Stafford, B., & Terpak, F.. Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen. Getty Research Institute, 2001. Trodd, Tamara. The art of Mechanical Reproduction, Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
