History of Photography

The course intends:
- presenting to students pivotal trends of photography from origin to second half of Twentieth-Century, by comparing constantly it with other visual arts;
- giving to students methodological tools useful for a critical and philological research on photography, in order to understand specific features, affinities and differences to other medium such as videotape, documentary and experimental film;
- focusing on specific topics: analysis of "documentation" and "artistic creation" in photograpy;
- studying critical and theoretical sources as well as methods for history of photography, and institutions for preserving and promoting photographic heritage.

Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of main trends of photography in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, focusing on origin of photography, technical features, and different approaches and tendencies, since the origins to "modernity", by comparing it with other contemporary visual arts.
Applying knowledge and understanding: using methods and historic or critical apply skills for study and analysis of photos, according to the specific cultural and historic context; getting a specific historiographical methodology.