Teacher
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FRONGIA ANTONELLO
(syllabus)
This lecture class offers an introduction to the history of photographic languages, practices, and cultures from the medium’s birth to WWI. Lectures will focus on the close reading of different types of photographic texts (including individual images, series, photo-texts, books, and exhibitions) and will discuss case studies associated with the crucial moments in the medium's affirmation as an intellectual and artistic field.
(reference books)
Regular students
For the final exam, students are responsible for the following text, including all photographs and artworks reproduced therein: ► A. Gunthert, M. Poivert (a cura di), Storia della fotografia dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Electa, Milano, 2009, pp. 1–355.
Distant learning
For the final exam, certified "distant learning students" are required to study the following texts, including all photographs and artworks reproduced therein: ► A. Gunthert, M. Poivert eds, Storia della fotografia dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Milan: Electa, 2009, pp. 1-355; ► W. Guadagnini, ed., La fotografia. Le origini 1839-1890, Geneve-Milan: Skira, 2011, pp. 34-111, 144-199, 200-225, 226-277; ► M. Mozzo, "Note sulla documentazione fotografica in Italia nella seconda metà dell’Ottocento, tra tutela, restauro e catalogazione", in Arti e storia nel Medioevo, vol. IV, Il Medioevo al passato e al presente, ed. by E. Castelnuovo and G. Sergi, Turin: Einaudi, 2004, pp. 847-870. ►
D. Levi, "Da Cavalcaselle a Venturi. La documentazione fotografica della pittura tra connoisseurship e tutela", in Gli archivi fotografici delle Soprintendenze. Tutela e storia. Territori veneti e limitrofi, ed. by A. M. Spiazzi, L. Majoli, C. Giudici, Crocetta di Montello: Terraferma, 2010, pp. 23-33.
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