Sumários
Documentary photography: subject matter and visual rhetoric
20 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta
1. Reflection on the social and historical events that are the object of documentary photography.
2. Visual strategies and visual rhetoric used in documentary photography.
3. Discussion about the status and effect of documentary photography.
For next class:
Read “The good eye: looking at pictures using compositional interpretation”.
Cultura de consumo
19 Fevereiro 2020, 18:00 • Diana Vieira de Campos Almeida
Visionamento e análise de
The Story of Stuff.
Almeida, Diana V. “Less is More”
Post 16/01/2017
http://culturvisflul.blogspot.com/2017/01/less-is-more.html
Dulemba, Elizabeth. “Is your stuff stopping you?”, TEDx University of Edinburgh, 16/02/2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pb-hjqdjbY
Leonard, Annie. The Story of Stuff (2007)
http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff/
The School of Life, “History: Consumerism”. 07/10/2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Unq3R--M0
Characteristics of portrait paintings and portrait photographs
18 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta
- Analysis of presidential portrait paintings and portrait photographs
- Discussion about the construction of political icons and myths
For next class:
1. Read “Modes of analysis”, 128-143
2. Read “Interpreting Photographs”, pp. 38-59
3. Consider how Susan Sontag’s interpretation of Jeff Wall’s Dead Troops Talk can function as a model for interpreting other images.
Visão como performance
14 Fevereiro 2020, 18:00 • Diana Vieira de Campos Almeida
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing
McCrodan, Cameron
Overlooking our vision. TEDxVictoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0pljgXZ_GA