Sumários
Sontag - On Photography
20 Março 2026, 11:00 • Marzia D'Amico
In today’s lecture, the critical thought on photography developed by Susan Sontag in On Photography (1977) was presented. The discussion focused on the dual valence of photography as both memory and spectacle, exploring its nuances and subcategories, including the risk of erasing the complexity of events and the aestheticisation of pain, among other issues.
A Critical Visual Methodology: Sites & Modalities
19 Março 2026, 15:30 • Ana Rita Martins
A Critical Visual Methodology:
- In-class Practice: Analysing R. Doisneau’s photography The Sidelong Glance (Part II);
- Sites & Modalities:
- The 3 Modalities of Visual Analysis: Compositional, Technological & Social
- In-class discussion
A Critical Visual Methodology: Sites – Production, The Image Itself, Circulation, and Audiencing.
17 Março 2026, 15:30 • Ana Rita Martins
A Critical Visual Methodology
- Site of Production
- Site of The Image Itself
- Site of Circulation
- Site of Audiencing
Special Lecture on Photography & Media Archive
17 Março 2026, 11:00 • Marzia D'Amico
Today’s session featured a guest lecture by Dr Sandra Camacho (NOVA) on photography from a technical and historical perspective. She outlined key developments in the medium and emphasised how technological processes shape photographic outcomes. The lecture also introduced the concept of the media archive, highlighting how photographs function as archival objects within systems of storage, classification, and power.
The Oppositional Gaze
13 Março 2026, 11:00 • Marzia D'Amico
Starting from Berger, whose idea of the gaze was radically reconsidered through the feminist film theory notion of visual pleasure and the male gaze developed by Mulvey, we moved into bell hooks’s text “The Oppositional Gaze”, thereby introducing the expansive racial dimension into feminist critique, and focusing on the forms of pleasure in non-identification proposed by hooks.