Class Contemporary Photography

The course aims to present the discourses and languages ¿¿present in contemporary photography. Establish whenever possible the necessary links with the disciplinary areas of art and contemporary discourses, cinema and the media. Recognize the photographic image as an object of thought and knowledge, in its varied contexts. Develop skills and research methodologies, which allow the development of theoretical work with presentation to the class. To apprehend concepts inherent to contemporary photographic and artistic practice. Be able to produce practical exercises in photographic language.

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1- Photography as art, art as photography.  2- Photography in relation to the concepts of appropriation, reproduction and quotation; around the works of Sophie Calle, Christian Boltanski, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, among others;  3- The cinematic and the relationship with the moving image - from Jeff Wall to David Claerbout;  4- Approaches to cinema - from Michelangelo Antonioni to Douglas Gordon; ¿ 5- Archives and memory; from Aby Warburg to Wolfgang Tillmans¿ 6 - The Dusseldorf school and its main protagonists; 7 - The image as object;  8- Ethics and aesthetics; 9- The crisis in the image, real vs virtual, AI and its paradigms;  10 - Contemporary visual discourses and narratives; 11 - Design and develop a project; 12- Festivals (e.g. Imago Photo Festival, Encontros de Imagem); platforms (Parallel Platform); exhibitions and publications

The curricular unit has a theoretical-practical nature, including the presence of practical exercises. In this way, the methodologies range from the development of cognitive and reflective skills, encouraging analysis and criticism, to proposals for statements to carry out practical exercises. Study visits to exhibitions and festivals / visits to artists’ studios;  

AA.VV; Appropriation; ed. lit. David Evans; (Ed. MIT Press, 2009) ¿AA.VV; Photography: A critical introduction; ed. Lit. Liz Wells; (London; New York: Routledge, 2004) AA.VV; Mutations perspectives on photography; Edited by Chantal Pontbriand; (Ed. Gottingen: Steidl, 2011) ¿AA.VV; Art and photography; ed. Lit. David Campany; (Phaidon; London, 2003). ¿AA.VV; The cinematic; ed.lit. David Campany; (London, Whitechapel, 2007) ¿Almeida, Bernardo Pinto de; O plano de imagem, Lisboa, (Assírio & Alvim, 1996) ¿Almeida, Bernardo Pinto de; Imagem da fotografia, (Ed. Assírio & Alvim, Lisboa, 1995) Belting; Hans; Antropologia da imagem; (Ed. KKYM+EAUM, 2014, Lisboa) ¿Barthes, Roland; A Câmara Clara, Edições 70, Lisboa, 1981 Fontcuberta, Joan; La Furia de las imagenes, Ed.Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L., 2020  Rito, Ana. "Tomar peso à imagem: ensaio". In PANTA RHEI_Programa curatorial da Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira BF22,  2023