30787 - Fashion Photography and Visual Culture (2nd cycle)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student is able to understand and make the most about visual knowledge and in particular about fashion and advertising communication. Thanks to his experiences of practices and poetics of photography's identity, he will be able to recognize and organize with critical awareness fashion and advertising viaul projects.

Course contents

The Course contents will be first of all dedicated to a description and definition of visual culture, especially about photography and fashion, in the Contemporary Age.
Students have to be able to recognize and analyse photographs in relations with their cultural and artistic contexts.
In a second time the course will be dedicated to relationships between Fashion and Photography, through the analysis of the historical production of the master of fashion photography but also through the research of the main conceptual themes which have crossed the two areas.
Finally the course will reflect upon the visual history and the identity of "Vogue" magazine.

Readings/Bibliography

- C. Marra, Fotografia e pittura nel Novecento. Una storia "senza combattimento", Bruno Mondadori, Milano 1999.
- C. Marra, Nelle ombre di un sogno. Storia e idee della fotografia di moda, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2004.
- F. Muzzarelli, L'immagine del desiderio. Fotografia di moda tra arte e comunicazione, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2009.
- F. Muzzarelli (a cura di), Gossip. Moda e modi del voyeurismo contemporaneo, BUP, Bologna 2010.
- F. Muzzarelli (a cura di), Obiettivo Moda. Incursioni nella fotografia di moda contemporanea, BUP, Bologna 2011.

Students who don't come from Corso di Laurea Triennale in Culture e Tecniche della moda must also study:

- F. Muzzarelli, Le origini contemporanee della fotografia, Quinlan, Bologna 2007

  Students who come from Corso di Laurea Triennale Clam di Rimini must also study:

- H. Newton, Autobiografia, Contrasto, Roma 2004.
- F. Muzzarelli, Il corpo e l'azione, Atlante, Bologna 2007 (trad. Francese Femmes Photographes, Hazan, Parigi 2009.

Visual and Historical references:

- Hall-Duncan N., The History of Fashion Photography, Harry N. Abrams, New York 1978.
- The Idealizing Vision. The Art of Fashion photography, Aperture, New York 1991.
- Archeologia dell'eleganza 1980-2000. 20 anni di Fotografia di moda, Contrasto, Roma 2002.
- Chic Cliks. Creativity and commerce in contemporary fashion photography, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2002.
- Evans C., Fashion at the Edge, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2003.
- Frisa M.L., Tonchi S., Mattirolo A., Lo sguardo italiano. Fotografie italiane di Moda dal 1951 a oggi, Charta, Milano 2005.
- McDowell C., Fashion, La Biblioteca di Repubblica, Roma 2006.
- N. Angeletti-A. Oliva, In Vogue. La storia della rivista più prestigiosa al mondo, Rizzoli, Milano 2007.
- AA.VV., Fashion as Photograph. Viewing and Reviewing Images of Fashio, I.B. Tauris, Londra/NY 2008.
- F. Monneyron, La Photographie de Mode. Un Art Souverain, PUF, Parigi 2010.

Teaching methods

Assessment methods

Oral examination
Workshop

Teaching tools

Links to further information

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

Office hours

See the website of Federica Muzzarelli