Subject 'Photography Theory and Criticism II'

Year:   2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    2019/2020    

• the object of photography theories and the different ways of it's articulation;
• essentialist and functionalist photography theories;
• the interpretive operations of photographic analysis;
• the interpretive methods of photographic analysis;
• poly-, inter- and dedisciplinary methods of photographic analysis;
• the limitations of art theories in the analysis of photographic medium;

On successful completion of this course the students should be able to:

• have a basic understanding of the ways general cultural, art and medium specific theories can be applied to photographic analysis;
• know the main types of contexts necessary for the theorization of photographs;
• know one's way around in different methods of analysis;
• combine different methods of analysis and theorization;
• perform a reflexive analysis;
• know the most important methods of theorization used in the neighboring disciplines (cinema, advertising, journalism).

2016: 2271  

2015: 2271  

2014: 2271  

2013: 2271