TEORIE E TECNICHE DEL FOTOGIORNALISMO UMANISTICO E SOCIALE
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: STEFANIA GIULIA MAZZONEExpected Learning Outcomes
Basic knowledge of photography and history of humanistic photojournalism
Course Structure
Frontal lessons
laboratories
Required Prerequisites
Basic humanistic knowledge
Attendance of Lessons
Free frequency
Detailed Course Content
Module 1: The precursors and the birth of the humanistic-social genre.
The image: from the caves to the dark room.
The great masters of light: Gerda Taro, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa.
• Module 2: Josef Koudelka: peoples and history.
The Prague Spring: Radio Prague and the chronicle of the Soviet invasion.
The city, the event, the photo: the pandemic shot.
• Module 3: Man, the environment, work.
Eugene W. Smith: Minamata, the emblematic photo; Sebastião Salgado: the earth, the hands.
Ecology and health: daily news.
• Module 4: Multitudes.
Movements of the second millennium: from Occupy to Black Lives Matter.
• Module 5: The journey, the struggles.
The reportage: The Red Shirt Movement in Thailand; The "fragile" Palestinians.
• Module 6: Human Rights: images and justice.
Asylum seekers; the vulnerable in the city; The "migrant" work; Disciplinary institutions
• LABORATORY 1: Analog photography and the dark room.
• WORKSHOP 2: Digital photography and post-production.
• WORKSHOP 3: Photographing and shooting shorts with a mobile phone.
Textbook Information
S. Sontag, Davanti al dolore degli altri, Nottetempo, 2021
A. ARIENZO E S. MAZZONE, GENEALOGIE PLURALI, OMBRE CORTE, VERONA 2023 (TRE SAGGI A SCELTA DELLO STUDENTE)
Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
---|---|---|---|---|
S. Sontag | Davanti al dolore degli altri | Nottetempo | 2021 | |
Aa.Vv. | Genealogie plurali | ombre corte | 2023 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Oral exam
Laboratories
Practice Test
Project management
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Photography and pain
Authors of the history of photojournalism
Reportage design