27257 - Photography and Visual Culture (1)

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Fashion Cultures and Techniques (cod. 0955)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student has historical and critical knowledge about the developments of visual arts and photography in the XX century; he is able to analyse and interpret the strategy of the world of the communication in which photography plays a central role.

Course contents

The main purpose of the course is the student's mastery of a basic knowledge in contemporary visual culture, in which photography plays a central role. The lessons will start facing the photographic origins in the social and artistic context from the XIX century.  Then the students will be helped to reflect upon examples of the use and the performing identity of photography in visual arts, fashion and advertising in XX century.
Particularly, this course will be dedicated to the analysis of the modern fashion icons.

Readings/Bibliography

For the oral examination:

Bibliography 

- F. Muzzarelli, Il corpo e l'azione. Donne e fotografia tra Otto e Novecento, Atlante, Bologna 2007.

- F. Muzzarelli, Moderne Icone di Moda, Einaudi, Torino 2013.

- F. Muzzarelli, L'invenzione del fotografico, Einaudi, Torino 2014.




Teaching methods

Powerpoint and readings of pictures

Assessment methods

Oral examination, reflection and comments about the history of photography and about the bibliography.

Teaching tools

Powerpoint, Video, Analysis of photographs

Links to further information

http://www.moda.unibo.it/CultureModa

Office hours

See the website of Federica Muzzarelli