History of Photography

Code:

HART022

Acronym:

HFOT

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=1311
E-learning page:	http://moodle.up.pt/
Responsible unit:	Department of Heritage Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in History of Art

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
HART	45	HART - Study Plan	3	-	6	4

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The student should be able to:

Know the evolution of photographic processing techniques applied since the first contributions to the study of light until the digital age;

Frame and systematize uses and categories of photography since the registration of its patent to the present day;

Understand theory and discussion on photography as artistic expression, documentary record or instrument of power and legitimacy;

Identify artists and movements, newm paradigmas and theoretical constructions around historical cycles marked by new languages ​​and protagonists;

Acquire concepts and tools for reading, analysis and interpretation of the photographic image;

Learning outcomes and competences

Student will acquire knowledge and competences that allow him to identify, analyse, interpret and treat the photographic image and its support as a document and as a cultural and artistic representative element.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Program

1 - Brief history of photographic processing techniques:
A proto - photography ?
Photography and painting : a discussion of the Arts ;
Positive and negative : processes and uses;
Portrait and landscape: the first themes.
The era of digital photo and its problem
2 - History of photography:
The sense of image : uses, ideas and functions of photography ;
From black&white to color (1839-1914) ;
The photojournalism and magazine illustration ;
Photomontage and photography serving ideologies;
Weimar and the European avant-garde ;
Stieglizt Pictorialism and the reaction: the pure and objective photo;
Photo goes conceptual;
The contemporary experimentalists;
3 - Photograph as Document and as a medium:
The scientific image and the historical record ;
Social Perspectives : photography serving the ideologues ;
pLookinf for a Photographic estetic: the digital era and the impact of photography in society;
4 - The «case study» of Portugal:
The first picture studios and portraitists;
Shooting to narrate: landscape, society and practices;
The photograph at the service of Regimes : monarchy, First and second Republics;
Photography and cinema ;
The modern and contemporary movements of photography in Portugal.

Mandatory literature

Barthes, Roland, 1915-1980; A^câmara clara. ISBN: 972-44-0076-X
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940; Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política. ISBN: 978-989-641-270-8 (Pages 97-114)
Freund, Gisèle; Fotografia e sociedade
Nicolau, Ricardo, ed.; Fotografia na arte: de ferramenta a paradigma, Público/Fundação de Serralves, 2006. ISBN: 989-619-040-2
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004; Ensaios sobre fotografia. ISBN: 978-989-722-058-6
Sena, António; História da imagem fotográfica em Portugal. ISBN: 972-0-06265-7
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946; The^photography of Alfred Stieglitz. ISBN: 0-935398-23-6
Trachtenberg, Alan; Ensaios sobre fotografia, Orfeu Negro, 2013. ISBN: 978-989-8327-19-2
Sena, António; Uma História da Fotografia, INCM, 1991. ISBN: 972-27-0423-0
Serén, Maria do Carmo; A Fotografia em Portugal: Arte Portuguesa da Pré-História ao Século XX, Fubu Editores, 2009

Complementary Bibliography

Almeida, Bernardo Pinto de; O^ plano da imagem. ISBN: 972-37-0407-2
Amar, Pierre-Jean; História da fotografia. ISBN: 978-972-44-1382-2
Baptista, Paulo Artur Ribeiro ; A Casa Biel e as suas edições fotográficas no Portugal de Oitocentos, Edições Colibri, 2010. ISBN: 978-972-772-980-7
Ehrlich, Richard; Dicionário de Fotografia, Publicações Dom Quixote, 1986
Frade, Pedro Miguel; Figuras do espanto. ISBN: 972-41-1127-X
Gray, Michael et al.; Frederick William Flower: um pioneiro da fotografia portuguesa, Lisboa: L. Capital Europeia da Cultura / Milão: Electa, 1994. ISBN: 8843548743
Martins, Luis de Sousa; A^fotografia de Rocha Peixoto
Johnson, William S.; A^history of photography. ISBN: 3-8228-4777-1
Pimentel, J. Cortez; A documentação pela imagem em medicina, Universitária Editora, 1996. ISBN: 972-700-058-4
Shawcross, Nancy M.; Roland Barthes on photography. ISBN: 0-8130-1469-7
Vicente, António Pedro; Carlos Relvas, Fotógrafo, INCM, 1984

Comments from the literature

Other bibliograhic material, like book chapters, essays, online articles, links and other sources will be provided by the teacher during classes or through the moodle webpage of the UC.

Teaching methods and learning activities

In the theoretical and practical lessons the teacher displays the course content defined above, stimulates discussion and the questioning of concepts, linking the themes presented with the knowledge acquired over first level of course within several areas that concern photography. In the tutorial lessons guidance is intended to combine the practical application of theoretical approaches to testing and discussion of research methodologies and analysis, requiring consultation and interpretation of sources and bibliographical matters, trough individual and group support.

keywords

Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Photography
Humanities > History > Art History

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	56,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	50,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The student obtains frequency attending 75% of classes (except in exceptional cases provided for by law), anda grade mark of 9,5 or superior in each of the Evaluation Components listed above (Project and Exam). The presence should be assessed by signing in the appropriate form submitted by the teacher.

Calculation formula of final grade

Exam: 50%

Individual work (written or photographic project or essay): 50% - within this evaluation component is the oral presentation of the project.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Internship work/project

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the Assessment Regulations in force.

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations in force.

Observations

All cases not specified in this form will be resolved in accordance with the Regulations in force or by the teacher.
This discipline is compatible with the frequency of mobility students, who may require tutorial sessions in English and specific bibliography in the same language or language of origin. Summaries and exams will also be available bilingual or in English.