Subject 'Elements of Photographic Expression. Composition in Photography'

Year:   2014/2015    2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    

• photographic composition as a means to bind different expressive elements and create meaning;
• the main concepts of photographic composition (abstract-concrete, real-unreal, symmetric-asymmetric, balanced-unbalanced, dynamic-static) and their use;
• connecting composition and photo-technical elements of expression/photo-technical possibilities
• connecting the emotional and the social as general expressive modes to the end result/photograph
• solving practical tasks by combining compositional elements and previously studied elements of expression;
• the social and aesthetic dimensions of communication
• critical assessment and analysis of the work
• seminars

On successful completion of this course the students should be able to:
• understand the specificity and the rules of composition in photography and can use this in the process of creating meaning;
• use the methods of photo composition to achieve expressive results;
• perceive different approaches to achieve a compositionally holistic end result;
• construct a well composed photographic space;
• reach an end result where the author, the photograph and the viewer are all part of a comprehensible communicative whole;
• critically assess the conditional-meaningful, compositionally expressed photographic space.

2019: 2271  

2018: 2271  

2017: 2271  

2016: 2271  

2015: 2271  

2014: 2271