Teaching period: 19–23.10.2020
Teaching hours in the course: Mon - Fri daily 10 - 17
Teacher(s): Egon van Herreweghe
ECTS: 3
Number of available place for KUNO students: 2
Level: BA
Requirements: Students have to have an interest in visual media (photography), basic knowledge of history of photography and know how to critically analyze an image as a visual means of communication. Course is for Fine Arts students (photography oriented)
Application deadline: Until availabililty of seats or until 16.10.2020 10:00am
How to apply: First ones to apply get the spot in the workshop.
Apply here: via google forms THE COURSE IS FULL, all places taken!
Language of the subject: English
The workshop is happening via Zoom.
Course description:
The aim of the workshop is to analyze all photographic images from an international newspaper such as The New York Times or Financial Times. Whether it is the use of stock images, the 'raw' reality documentary photographs often radiate, etc. all photography expresses a framework, by tradition or by intention. To understand a photo's DNA, we have to reproduce them ourselves or place ourselves in similar circumstances. By copying these images or envision the circumstances, we gain insight into the reasoning and references they contain. Just like newspapers, photography is a relatively fast medium, so it's important not to get lazy. That is why learning to look critically at one's own practice is paramount.
On Monday of the workshop both me and the students will buy an international newspaper such as The New York Times or Financial Times and subject it to image research together. In the following days, the students are challenged and encouraged to copy the photos in various ways in order to understand better the structure and strategy behind these images.
Various tactics and historical references are used as a starting point for the workshop, starting from The Pictures Generation, Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince to Lutz Bacher.
After the workshop, a collective facsimile of the newspaper containing a selection of the results is made.
Photo by Kulla Laas
