Sumários

The social function of war photography

27 Fevereiro 2024, 08:00 Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta


  • War photography and aftermath photography
  • Aims and role of magazines like Life, Vu and Picture Post, Magnum photo agency and the World Press Photo. 
  • Modes of representing atrocity and human suffering

Guidelines for the Research Projects

22 Fevereiro 2024, 08:00 Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta


Guidelines about the methodology and content development of the research project.

Critical engagement with students' research projects.

Theoretical approaches to documentary photography

20 Fevereiro 2024, 08:00 Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta


  • Documentary as objective representation vs. documentary as subjective interpretation.
  • The relationship between documentary photography and photojournalism.

O processo de comunicação visual

16 Fevereiro 2024, 14:00 Mário Vítor Bastos


O processo de comunicação visual.

Gillian Rose's critical visual methodology

15 Fevereiro 2024, 08:00 Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta


1.  Illustration of Gillian Rose’s method of visual analysis: the four sites where the social effects of an image are made and the three modalities of each of these sites.

2. Interpretation of Robert Doisneau’s assignment Un Regard Oblique and discussion of the social circumstances and power relations in which it is embedded