Università Roma Tre

The laboratory intends to develop and deepen the themes, styles, authors and trends of contemporary photography with a special regard to the photographic display, intended as exhibitions and therefore the natural outcome of many of the contemporary photographic projects.
Contemporary photography and its, so to speak, “phototelling” will therefore be the topic on which the lessons and work sessions that will involve the students will be based
The laboratory will in fact be divided into 3 parts:
- elements of the history of photography;
- story of photographic exhibitions as a possibility to show, to realise a project;
- practice.
From the themes and the problems related to the realisation of the exhibitions to some exercises on exhibitions made or underway, such as "War Shadows" and "Magnum Manifesto", where we will take a guided tour of the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome.

Walter Benjamin, L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica – arte e società di massa, Torino, Einaudi.

Roland Barthes, La camera chiara, Torino Einaudi.

Alessandra Mauro, Photoshow – le mostre che hanno segnato la storia della fotografia, Roma, Contrasto, 2014


Letture consigliate

Charlotte Cotton, La fotografia come arte contemporanea, Torino, Einaudi, 2015

Giuliana Bruno, Pubbliche intimità – architetture e atri visive, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2007