Curriculum subject

Photographic Representation and Expression. Photographic Arrays and Narrative

Subject
Subject code	FE.41.01
Subject name	Photographic Representation and Expression. Photographic Arrays and Narrative
Credit points	4 ECTS
Grading method	Distinctive

Curriculum subject
Curriculum	2015 2271
Study year	3
Semester	Fall semester
Subject type	Mandatory

General description
• documentality as a communication strategy: factuality and fictiveness • documentary and the attribution of truthful representation; documentality as science and drama • historical overview of documentary approach in literature, theatre, cinema and photography; • observational and participatory documentary; • documentary and visual anthropology; the principle of reflexivity in documentary practice; • the philosophical underpinnings contributing to the formation of documentary photography: humanism and naturalism • socially engaged documentary: photojournalism and journalistic photography • critical and independent documentary practice: photo agencies, personal projects, etc. • independent documentary practice as a society's means for self-scrutiny; • single frame and photographic arrays; • typology, taxonomy, series and other non-narrative photographic arrays; • the core characteristics and historical forms of narrative • the relations between photographs in a narrative (directional) array; • narrative structures in a single frame; • combining different sign systems into a narrative photo array; • the real-life (factuality) and photographic narrative: photo essay in journalism; • fictivity and photographic narrative in the form of a monograph • photo film as a narrative genre;

Study outcome
On successful completion of this course the students should be able to: • have a systematic knowledge of documentary genres and their possibilities; • recognize the constant influence of political, economical and other interests on documentary practice; • choose between observational and participatory methods • base the choice of the style and modality of written information on the project objective; • sense the contextual suitability of documentary modes of expression; • have a systematic knowledge of photographic arrays; • differentiate between typological and narrative photographic arrays; • be conscious of the influence political, economical and other interests have on narrative; • choose in their work between photographic arrays of different structure; • use, in addition to geometric composition, narrative (temporal) composition; • perceive the unity in the original material from which their photographic array composed; • combine single photographs into narrative arrays that have a direction and are effective and convincing.

Current rounds
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