Photography as Communication (KSK_262)
About Study Course
Objective
To promote an improvement of professional competence of students, which is characterised by the ability to autonomously evaluate, critically discuss and construct messages based on the photography being aware of historical development and contemporary diversity of photography. Students should learn, evaluate and confirm their knowledge about the constructed nature of messages based on the medium of photography and regularities in their use. Students should certify their understanding of photography media as a part of communication in society, analytically describing and creatively constructing information, problems and creative solutions in photography. Students should professionally implement their project in photography based on communicative aspects of photography media.
Prerequisites
None.
Learning outcomes
After mastering the course students:
• will name and characterise the main stages and drivers of development of photography;
• will tell about theoretical approaches and main authors of photography;
• will describe the impact of photography on society;
• will explain communicative properties of photography.
After mastering the course students:
• will recognise main paradigms and types of messages of photography;
• will evaluate a message of photography.
Students are able to critically analyse the messages and aesthetic qualities encoded in the photography language; able to interpret regularities in photography communication; are able to autonomously lead and produce a creative photo story for the needs of photo journalism and business.