TEORIE E TECNICHE DEL FOTOGIORNALISMO UMANISTICO E SOCIALE

Basic knowledge of photography and history of humanistic photojournalism

Frontal lessons
laboratories

Basic humanistic knowledge

Module 1: The precursors and the birth of the humanistic-social genre.
                   The image: from the caves to the dark room.
                   The great masters of light: Gerda Taro, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa.
  
• Module 2: Josef Koudelka: peoples and history.
                    The Prague Spring: Radio Prague and the chronicle of the Soviet invasion.
                    The city, the event, the photo: the pandemic shot.
 
• Module 3: Man, the environment, work.
                    Eugene W. Smith: Minamata, the emblematic photo; Sebastião Salgado: the earth, the hands.
                    Ecology and health: daily news.
 
• Module 4: Multitudes.
                   Movements of the second millennium: from Occupy to Black Lives Matter.
 
• Module 5: The journey, the struggles.
                   The reportage: The Red Shirt Movement in Thailand; The "fragile" Palestinians.
 
• Module 6: Human Rights: images and justice.
                   Asylum seekers; the vulnerable in the city; The "migrant" work; Disciplinary institutions
 
• LABORATORY 1: Analog photography and the dark room.
 
• WORKSHOP 2: Digital photography and post-production.
 
• WORKSHOP 3: Photographing and shooting shorts with a mobile phone.

S. Sontag, Davanti al dolore degli altri, Nottetempo, 2021

A. ARIENZO E S. MAZZONE, GENEALOGIE PLURALI, OMBRE CORTE, VERONA 2023 (TRE SAGGI A SCELTA DELLO STUDENTE)

Oral exam

Laboratories

Practice Test

Project management

Photography and pain

Authors of the history of photojournalism

Reportage design