The course aims to critically review "-which has been the history of the photographic medium from its invention to the nearest day, but it is not a story of technical events and events photography, but a group of images that finds meaning in his relation to art in general and the specifics of the particular medium.
The history of photography is brief, barely 170 years have passed since their invention. At the same time, is very dense, more and more. Label all for the sake of it, that is, by our "need" to do, is probably stupid. Analyze each historical movement and critically, identify its antecedents and its consequences must be established, in contrast, enriching.
A writing is learned by reading. To take photographs is essential viewing pictures or, put another way, knowing how and why we are here. This involves putting a small light to the bottom and inward, to know a little, just a little better, if possible, who we are and where we go.

From 1839 until today, to be led by photographer Carlos Canovas, will be held at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa Gas Natural - MACUF, and a total duration of 24 hours distributed as follows:
- Friday, 12 February 17 to 21h, and Saturday 13 February 10 to 14h and from 16 to 20h.
- Friday, March 12 from 17 to 21h, and Saturday 13 March from 10am to 14pm and from 16 to 20h.
The total price of the entire workshop, including registration, will be 80 € and paid in advance in two installments for each of the weekend:

1 st term, February: € 50, € 20 of which correspond to the registration (the deadline for payment is 10 February 2010).
2nd deadline, March: 30 € (the deadline for payment is 10 March 2010).
Registration and payment: the registration form, available at www.macuf.com, you must complete and deliver in the time of the first installment in receiving MACUF in open to the public and before February 10 2010.
If a participant can not arrive at the MACUF to make the payment, request your place by sending the registration form to eprado@unionfenosa.es, and entering a deposit of 50 € in the bank account you will be prompted as a response to your email mail.

About Carlos Canovas

Photographer, author of several books that reflected her personal work, among which is derived from the river: landscape of no return "(Fundación BBK, Bilbao, 1994) and Landscape shooting (IVAM, Valencia, 1997). He has also published various titles in connection with the history of photography, such as Notes for a history of photography in Navarra (Institución Príncipe de Viana, Pamplona, 1989) and Miguel Goicoechea, a marginal pictorialist (Ikeda, Bilbao, 1994). Navarro was a member of the Council of Culture (1983-86). Since 2000 he hired a professor of photography at the Public University of Navarra. He has had numerous exhibitions, both individual and collective, both in Spain and other countries. There his work in various centers and institutions, including the Museo de Bellas Artes (Bilbao), the IVAM (Valencia), Museo de Navarra (Pamplona), the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), the Instituto Cervantes (Rome) or universities Alicante, Salamanca and Navarra.

Contents

The nature of this program is indicative because, of course, the dynamics of the course may make desirable changes on the fly.

FIRST WEEKEND
Friday afternoon
Introduction to the course.
History of photography.
The invention. Early photographic processes.
The Daguerrotipomanía.
The Heroic Times: photography slow.
Saturday morning
Photography as art: Pictorialism.
Towards the snapshot. Sequences and chronophotography.
Futurism.
The Breakdown: New Objectivity and Straight Photography.
Saturday afternoon
The Bauhaus and the New Vision.
The avant-garde.
Dadaism and Surrealism.
Photomontage.

SECOND WEEKEND
Friday afternoon
Realism and photography: realistic formulas. Towards an aesthetic canon.
The Photojournalism: development of variants documentaries.
Saturday morning
After the war Photo Subjective and Photographs Reading.
Abstraction.
A crucial period ('60 and '70).
The Pop Art
Saturday afternoon
Development of conceptual photography.
Postmodernism and photography.
New Survey.
Neopictorialismo and visual.
A crossroad: drift current and future speculations.

Each of the chapters will be developed, following an introductory statement with the projection of numerous photographs related to it. Commented that projection is the basic material of the program.
Also be carried out during the course, the projection of some film clips and / or documentaries alluding to subjects.
Similarly, each session will conclude with a symposium on the content addressed.


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