The discreet omnipresence of photography: a preface
Contrast: Photography in Higher Education is a publication that was born from a need felt by many and that its authors understood to be an imperative: to make known the role and the importance that the teaching and practice of photography has today in Portuguese higher education schools of art, desi
Posface
We have reached the end of the book Contrast. Photography in Higher Education and it is in the inspiring light of this experience that exposes Photography as a living and open system, that I emphasize the photographic image as a holistic entity between things and people. Photography, this labyrinth
Editorial
The Contrast publication is the result of a partnership established between FAUP /CEAU / CCRE and ESMAD / uniMAD and gives continuity and a new dimension to the section with the same name, which had been published in the international photography magazine scopio Magazine. Contrast enriches and evolv
The discipline and the name
Practising and teaching the arts were two fields in constant transformation over the last half century. Artistic practice – and saying so is almost commonplace – was reformed numerous times throughout the twentieth century, absorbing many other forms of object and image production, but also inco
The Image Conditions
Philippe Descola (Les Formes du Visible, 2021), begins by stating: “Of the myriad of images produced by humans for at least eighty thousand years, only a tiny fraction is relevant to art and its history”. In this myriad of images are contained all sorts of representations, from image pro
Eight Hundred and Eight Words – Photography Against the Wide Road of Oblivion
Over the last two decades, I have focused my study and professional practice on processes of participant observation and research-action within the scope of the University’s 3rd mission. Miscegenation with the various academic and professional communities working in various public institutions
The Educated Eye
“And now, my friend, I ask you to open your eyes wide. Do you keep your eyes open? Have you been trained to open your eyes? Do you continually keep them open? What do you look at when you walk?”. This advice from Le Corbusier to architecture students could be extended to anyone involved
A Map For Navigators
Photography has been associated, since its birth, with the need to represent and reproduce through imagery and, more importantly, with the need to better understand the world around us. Therefore, in the 20th century, photography was described as a mirror of reality. Moreover, due to its ability to
Photospeaking
As a geographer, I could not speak of photography in another condition, which would cause me greater error and discomfort. In classical geography, one largely photographed the landscape: the thing itself and its representation, which, as we know, are inseparable. In this practice, there was no
Editorial
This new edition of CONTRAST aims to reinforce the universe of Photography Creation and Education by opening it to Multidisciplinarity in Art, Architecture and Design. The publication will have a public and bilingual online version (PT and ENG), thereby reaching a wider and international audience. I