PHOTOGRAPHY APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE SEMINAR

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

MM4011N

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

TORDONE Vienna

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

None

Objectives

Provide the students with theoretical knowledge, technical skills and methodologies required for the photographic documentation of Cultural Heritage. At the end of the course students will learn fundamental notions of the photographic technique, the use of the equipment and the appropriate methodologies of shooting aimed for the documentation of Archaeological and Historical-Artistic Heritage. Moreover they will learn the basic procedures of conservation and cataloguing of photography as a Cultural Heritage.

Contents

Analogic and digital photography theoretical and practical course organized in four thematic modules:
1 – History and evolution of the photographic technique.
2 – Photographic notions: equipment, materials and rules.
3 – Methods and techniques of photographic shooting of Archaeological and Historical-Artistic Heritage.
4 – Guidelines on the conservation and cataloguing of photographic material.

Extended Syllabus

MODULE 1 – HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
Studies and devices for image reproduction: from the camera obscura to the modern cameras / Evolution of the photographic technique: historical procedures and protagonists.

MODULE 2 – PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTIONS: EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS AND RULES
Cameras: basic elements and their functions / Cameras classification / Camera lenses classification / The exposure triangle: aperture, shutter speed and ISO / The depth of field / Characteristics of the light and the color / Lightning systems and photographic exposure reading / Photographic films: characteristics, formats and sensitivity.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Characteristics of digital image: pixels, image resolution, depth of color, raster graphics and vector graphics, image files main formats / Types of digital cameras / Memory cards / White balance / Image acquisition by scanner / Digital files processing.

MODULE 3 – PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE DOCUMENTATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL-ARTISTIC HERITAGE
Photographic shooting methodologies and techniques of the Archaeological and Historical-Artistic Heritage, with reference to the ICCD regulations for the photographic documentation of cataloguing sheets.
Photography of architectures and archaeological sites / Photography of the painted surfaces / Photography of the epigraphs, stamps and engravings / Photography of the statuary / Photography of the mosaics / Photography of the various classes of ceramics / Photography of the glass / Small objects photography: coins, gems, etc. / Books, prints, drawings and photographs reproduction / Photography of the archaeological excavation: perspective and planimetric shots; preparation of the photograpic area and insertion of shooting accessories in the frame (metric scale, slate, north arrow, stratigraphic unit tags).

MODULE 4 – “PHOTOGRAPHY AS CULTURAL HERITAGE”
Methods of identification of the main historical photographic procedures / Guidelines on the conservation of photographic material / Standards and softwares for the photographic cataloguing / ICCD F-Sheet and the general catalogue information system (SiGECweb)/ Some examples of public and private photographic archives.

Some of the course's subject matters will be developed through practical exercise: in Module 3 students will be shooting with digital camera (in the lab or outdoor) and will be making a final paper for the exam; in Module 4 students will be practicing the cataloguing techniques for photographic images stored in the DiSPuTer photographic Archive.

Recommended Bibliography

- J. HEDGECOE, Il nuovo manuale del fotografo, Mondadori, Milano 2004.
- S. BERSELLI, L. GASPARINI, L’archivio fotografico. Manuale per la conservazione e la gestione della fotografia antica e moderna, Zanichelli, Bologna 2000.
- A. CHÉNÉ, P. FOLIOT, G. RÉVEILLAC, La fotografia in archeologia, Jaca Book, Milano 1999.
- P. AUER, F. CAVALLINI, E. GIFFI (a cura di), Normativa per l'acquisizione digitale delle immagini fotografiche, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD), Servizio Pubblicazioni ICCD, Roma 1998.
- E. BERARDI (a cura di), Normativa F - Fotografia, Versione 4.00. Strutturazione dei dati e norme di compilazione, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD), Roma 2015.
- N. GRONCHI, La fotografia come mezzo di riproduzione delle opere d’arte. Storia, critica e tecniche della fotografia d’arte letta attraverso le immagini di Alinari, Brogi e Anderson, Aracne editrice, Ariccia (RM) 2016.
- R. GALASSO, E. GHIFFI (a cura di), La documentazione fotografica delle schede di catalogo. Metodologie e tecniche di ripresa, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD), Servizio Pubblicazioni ICCD, Roma 1998.
- F. MIRULLA, La fotografia archeologica digitale. Dallo scatto all’elaborazione, Edipuglia, Bari 2012.
- B. NEWHALL, Storia della fotografia, Einaudi, Torino 2007 (prima ed. italiana 1984).
- F. RECINE, La documentazione fotografica dell’arte in Italia dagli albori all’epoca moderna, Scriptaweb, Napoli 2006.
- L. SCARAMELLA, Fotografia. Storia e riconoscimento dei procedimenti fotografici, de Luca, Roma 1999.
- P. SORLIN, I figli di Nadar. Il "secolo" dell'immagine analogica, Einaudi, Torino 2001.
- G. BENASSATI (a cura di), La fotografia. Manuale di catalogazione, Grafis Edizioni, Casalecchio di Reno (BO) 1990.
- I. ZANNIER, L’occhio della fotografia. Protagonisti, tecniche e stili dell’“invenzione meravigliosa”, Carocci Editori, Roma 2002.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lessons with PowerPoint presentation; practice in laboratory and/or outdoor with digital cameras for the production of a final photographic paper; practice by cataloguing the photographs from the DiSPuTer Photographic Archive.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination; conversation about the work done with a presentation of an individual photographic task and an in-depth paper on the topics of the course.

Contacts/More Information

For registration address to dr. Vienna Tordone; telephone: 0871 355 6577; e-mail: vienna.tordone@unich.it

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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