MEMORIES OF A LATENT IMAGE II: FROM THE AVANT-GARDE TO POSTMODERNISM (1900-1970). History of Photography Course

This course offers a pictorial journey from the emergence of the avant-garde artistic movements in the early 20th century to the appearance of postmodernism in the nineteen-seventies. A period that marked a radical transformation in terms of how photography was understood.

We are talking about a unique perspective on the evolution of photography through the different artistic and documentary trends that emerged over seventy years of important historic changes. A perspective through its protagonists framed in terms of the social, cultural and intellectual context that defined photographic modernism. An exciting trip through the photography of a large part of the 20th century.

PROGRAMME

BLOCK I. Introduction
28 January. Modern life. Photography of social reform. Photography in movement. Photography of types. Paradigm change in photography.

BLOCK II. A New Vision (1900-1945)
4 February. Futurism. Russian constructivism. Vorticism
11 February. New objectivity
18 February. Dadaism and Bauhaus. Surrealism I
25 February. Surrealism II
11 March. Straight photography and Group F64
18 March. Documentary Photography I: War and revolution
25 March. Documentary Photography II: Social report

BLOCK III. The Glory Years of Photography (1945-1975)
1 April. Humanist photography: The Family of Man
8 April. Photographing the self: the existential gaze
22 April. Subjective photography. American Bauhaus
29 April. The new social landscape
6 May. Colour photography
13 May. Photography and conceptual art
20 May. The leap to postmodernism 

FUCO REYES (Santiago de Compostela, 1965) is a photographer, graduate in Social Psychology and specialist in Clinical Psychology. He studied Communication Sciences at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC). With a diploma in Contemporary Artistic Photography, he has largely focused his career on teaching. He has run photography courses and workshops at the USC and the CGAC, and has taught at Node Estudios de Arte Online. He’s currently running workshops at Eco Escuela de Arte. He has held a number of exhibitions, including several in Japan in 2010, and in the CGAC in 2013. He has also received numerous national prizes for professional photography and has recently been awarded the Premio Luis Ksado de Creación Fotográfica. He’s chair of the cultural association Fotoforum Compostela.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Anyone interested in the history of photography

REGISTRATION

The registration period will be open from 3rd December 2024 till 24th January 2025. If you’re interested, send an e-mail to cgac.educacion@xunta.gal. The following information must be provided: full name, ID number, studies, area of work or interest, an e-mail address and a contact telephone number. Once submissions have been accepted, applicants will be informed on proceeding with payment.

CERTIFICATION

The CGAC shall issue a certificate of achievement to all those who attend at least 70% of the sessions.