Checking date: 13/03/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Theory and practice of photo-journalism
(12335)
Master in Documentary and Journalistic Transmedia Reportage (Plan: 321 - Estudio: 289)
EPH


Coordinating teacher: SERRA , MARCELLO

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Objectives
The student will learn about: History, theory and rhetoric of photojournalism; Photojournalistic practice (camera work, composition, editing); Creation of a journalistic / documentary narrative in different photojournalistic genres; New tendencies in documentary photography and new multimedia formats.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. History of photojournalism and documentary photography 2. The photo essay 3. Documentary photography techniques 4. Photojournalistic genres 5. Essentials of photo editing in photojournalism 6. Visual storytelling 7. New tendencies in documentary photography This is a theoretical-practical course
Learning activities and methodology
Theoretical lectures and practical workshops
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 0
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • AA.VV.. Magnum Magnum. Lunwerg. 2012
  • Carrera, Pilar. 'Based on actual facts': Documentary Inscription in Fiction Films. Studies in Documentary Film, Vol. 15, n. 1. 2021
  • González, Rayco; Serra, Marcello. "Documentary functions: the uses of documents in non-fictional texts". Visual Studies, Vol. 35, n. 1. 2021
  • Kobre, Kenneth. Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach . Routledge. 2017
  • Lubben, Kristen. Magnum: Contact Sheets. Thames & Hudson. 2014
  • Lugon, Olivier. El estilo documental. De August Sander a Walker Evans 1920-1945. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. 2010
  • Sousa, Jorge Pedro. Historia crítica del fotoperiodismo occidental. Comunicación Social. 2011
  • Zelizer, Barbie. About to Die. How News Images Move the Public. Oxford University Press. 2010
Recursos electrónicosElectronic Resources *
Additional Bibliography
  • AA.VV. Ansiedad de la Imagen / Imagen Anxiety,. La Fábrica. 2012
  • AA.VV.. Libro del estilo urgente. Agencia EFE. Galaxia Gutenberg. 2014
  • AA.VV.. Un Mundo Adolescente/Teenage World - EXIT #4 . Proap. 2001
  • AA.VV.. Miradas fin de siglo, Madrid visto por Leonard Freed, Inge Morath, Eli Reed, Miguel Rio Branco, Alex Webb. Fundación Cultural Banesto. 1992
  • AA.VV.. La Deportación. El horror de los Campos de Concentración. Libreria Universitaria. 2005
  • AA.VV.. Autorretratos. Self-Portraits - EXIT #10. Proap. 2013
  • AA.VV.. 1000 caras/0 caras/1 rostro. La Fábrica - Fundación Telefónica. 2011
  • AA.VV.. Diccionario Fotógrafos españoles, siglos XIX, XX, XXI . La Fábrica. 2013
  • AA.VV.. Madrileños Un Álbum colectivo. Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Servicio de documentación y public . 2007
  • AA.VV.. El Movimiento de la Fotografía Obrera (1926-1939) Ensayos y Documentos. . TF Editores / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. 2010
  • AA.VV.. C Internacional photo magazine 03: On Cities. Ivory Press. 2006
  • AA.VV.. Aún no. Sobre la reinvención del documental y la crítica de la modernidad. . Departamento de Actividades Editoriales del MNCARS. 2015
  • AA.VV.. La Transición. Memoria gráfica de la historia y la sociedad españolas, XX. EL PAIS. 2006
  • AA.VV.. A través de la ventana - EXIT # 26. Rosa Olivares & Asociados S.L.. 2007
  • AA.VV.. Weegee's New York colección Michéle & Michel Auer . Fundación Telefónica. 2010
  • Adams Robert. ¿En qué podemos creer y dónde? Fotografías del oeste americano. La Fábrica. Museo Nacional Reina Sofía. 2012
  • Agencia EFE . 20 años de Democracia Agencia EFE. Lunwerg. 1997
  • Ajo . Bello Público, las Fotografías de Ajo . La Fábrica. 2011
  • Beard, Nejma; Fahey, David (eds.). Peter Beard. Taschen. 2006
  • Benjamin, Walter. Breve historia de la fotografía. Casimiro. 2011
  • Benjamin, Walter. On Photography. Reaktion Books. 2015
  • Cartier Bresson, Henri. The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers. Aperture. 1999
  • Freund, Gisèle. Photography and Society. David R. Godine. 1980
  • García Alix, Alberto. No me sigas... estoy perdido 76-86. La Fábrica. 2006
  • Gonzalo, Jaime. Escupidos de la boca de Dios. La Banda Trapera del río. Munters Records . 2007
  • Guibert, Emmanuel; Lefèvre, Didier; Lemercier, Frédéric. The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders. First Second. 2009
  • Ibarrola, Marivi. Yo Disparé en los 80. Fotografías de Mariví Ibarrola. Munster Records. 2012
  • López Mondéjar, Publio. Martín Santos Yubero. Crónica fotográfica de medio siglo de vida, 1925-1975. Lunwerg. 2010
  • Meneses Enrique. La vida de un reportero. La Fábrica. 2015
  • Morat Inge. España años 50 . Arte Contexto . 1995
  • Panzer, Mary; Caujolle, Christian. Things as they are. Chris Boot. 2005
  • Pivin, Jean-Loup; Saint Léon, Pascal Martin. Pierre Verger: O Mensageiro = The Go-Between Fotografías 1932-1962. Fundaçâo Pierre Verger. 2002
  • Terré, Laura (ed.). Colita. RM. 2014
  • Whelan, Richard. Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection. Phaidon. 2001
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