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Lecturers/Professors:	TOSCHI Caterina
Educational activities:	HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Academic discipline:	L-ART/03
Teaching hours:	36
Course hours:	36
Credits:	6
Teaching period:	1° semestre
Course Title: Course content:	The course aims to examine the history of photography from the first half of the 19th century to present day exploring key turning points and breakthroughs. Each topic is addressed thanks to different tools: lectures; primary sources (to stimulate students to confront with a philological approach); photographs (to understand the photographic culture through visual sources); class discussions; an updated calendar of events and activities related to photography in Tuscany.
Prerequisites:
Course books:	Oltre agli appunti delle lezioni, le/gli studentesse/i frequentanti dovranno preparare dieci fonti a scelta accessibili nella seguente cartella Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1W10ySHtDXJIR3IbJNTrHtxcGkPYUHghu. Oltre agli appunti delle lezioni (da richiedere tramite email agli studenti volontari incaricati a inizio corso), le/gli studentesse/i non frequentanti dovranno preparare il manuale di riferimento (Beaumont Newhall, “Storia della fotografia”, Einaudi, Torino, 1984) e venti fonti a scelta accessibili nella suddetta cartella Google Drive. A sussidio degli appunti presi a lezione, le/gli studentesse/i potranno consultare una cartella Google Drive contenente le fotografie indagate a lezione: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LZZL7YZZq1wnddy5qM4Su8d24nhmwhBr.
Teaching Methods:	The course will be held in the form of frontal lessons (classroom lectures, seminars, web conference lectures). Students will attend a didactic workshop entitled “La Straniera \| The Exhibitions Workshop” (1 CFU). Finally, visits and activities at museums, foundations and exhibition centres will be planned.
Learning Objectives:	Knowledge and understanding: to understand the photographic culture from the first half of the 19th century to present day. Applying knowledge and understanding: to approach contemporary artistic culture through the analysis of photographs. Learning skills: to learn techniques for comparing critical literature to textual and visual primary sources. Making judgements: to retrace cultural models in photographic research.
Expected Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods:	oral exam
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