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Photographic Representation and Expression. Image and Text in Photography

Subject
Subject code FE.41.03
Subject name Photographic Representation and Expression. Image and Text in Photography
Credit points 3 ECTS
Grading method Distinctive
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2017 2271
Study year 3
Semester Fall semester
Subject type Mandatory
General description
• separating writing and representing as a conditional/ historically established practice;
• the reasons for the dominance of verbal language in society;
• the visual aspect of written text; font and text as iconic formations/art;

• the idiosyncrasies and the results of mutual influence of of linguistic and iconic messages;
• anchorage and disruption; illustrative, commentary and other interrelations between image and text;
• contemporary print media and electronic media: combining linguistic and iconic messages;
• verbo-visual art (religious art, dada, conceptual art, hypertext, etc); photo-text as the genre historically combining image and text.
Study outcome
On successful completion of this course the students should be able to:
• have diverse knowledge of the historical and contemporary usage of combined image and text
• use the main methods of image rhetoric on iconic and verbo-visual level;
• find one's way around in the multitude of image-text interrelations;
• choose the adequate relations between iconic and linguistic sign systems, based on the character of the work at hand;
• predict the semantic consequences of the combined use of image and text
• create symbiotic image-text works which speak to the contemporary audience;
Current rounds
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