Subject 'Photographic Representation and Expression. Image and Text in Photography'

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

• 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.

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;

2019: 2271  

2018: 2271  

2017: 2271  

2016: 2271  

2015: 2271  

2014: 2271  

2013: 2271