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Teacher
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ALFANO Gaetano
(syllabus)
. The Renaissance perspective
. The birth of photography and its historical / scientific premises
• Focus on Niépce, Daguerre, Talbot, Bayard.
• Photography vs Painting: 19th century pictorialism and Baudelaire's criticisms
• The photographic automation from the carte-de-visite to the photo booth
(photomatic)
• The first photographic colonizations
• The Alinari family in Florence
• Photography and Historical Avant-gardes - Photography and ready made.
• Surrealism, Atget and Walker Evans
• Documentary Photography: the Farm Security Administration
• Photographic trends from the 40s-50s
• The conceptualism of the Sixties and Seventies
• New Trends and Snapshot Style
• Photography as a document and tool for recording reality
• Democratization of the image and social networks
(reference books)
• F. Muzzarelli, L'invenzione del fotografico. Storia e idee della fotografia dell'ottocento, Einaudi, Torino 2014.
•Roland Barthes, La camera chiara, Einaudi, 2003
• E. Gabrielli, Pietro Toesca: "misurare" l'arte con l'obiettivo fotografico, pp. 57, in Callegari P. - Gabrielli E., Pietro Toesca e la fotografia, saper vedere, Milano 2009
During the lectures, handouts will be provided to deepen some topics, in particular for the issue of photographic documentation for cultural heritage
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