COURSE PROGRAM

1. Introduction to the course I

FILM: John Berger Ways of seeing (1972), part 1

2. Introduction to the course II

own images & presentations

3. History of image and photography

Sontag, Susan (2005) ‘On Photography’. New York: Rosetta Books, p. 1-20.

Film: The Hand that touches the Arm (2022)

4 & 5. Visual semiotics & advertising

Rose, Gillian (2012) Semiology: laying bare the prejudices. Beneath the smooth surface of the visible, in: 'Visual Metodologies'. Thousand Oaks California: Sage Publications, p. 106-146.\

Film: Helmut Newton: the Bad and the Beautiful (2020)

6 & 7. Photo workshop: interactions in public place

8. War photography

Butler, Judith (2009) Torture and the Ethics of Photography: Thinking with Sontag, in: ‘Frames of War’. New York: Verso, p. 63-101.

FILM: The War Photographer (2001)

9. Methods I: photo-essay

Bourgois, Philippe & Jeff Schonberg (2009) Righteous dopefined. California University Press: chapter 7.

10. Methods II: photo-elicitation

Clark-Ibánez, Marisol (2004) Framing the Social World With Photo-Elicitation Interviews. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 47, No. 12, pp. 1507-1527.

11 & 12. Presentation of final projects