User:Luisa Moura/writing/graduation thesis outline

The Aesthetics of Ethics

What is the role of photojournalism in the visual identity of ethics?

PHOTOGRAPHIC TYPOLOGIES AND IDENTITY

CHAPTER-01: the importance of typology for the establishment of a visual language (Foucault, Tagg, Phèline and others)

- The role of Photography in the definition of identity: institutions, archive

- Photographic Typologies: identity and categories, from individual to groups

- Realism and Photography: context and purpose of realistic approach to photography (FSA and Eugenics); the heritage of

documentary photography and its authority in the exercise of concerned citizenship

SOCIAL REPORTAGE AND THE REALISTIC APPROACH

CHAPTER-02: the social reportage and the gathered material; analysis of its similitude, formal character and potential meaning

- Dutch contemporary media: display of collection under analysis

- The Social Reportage, Storytelling genre: Magnum and the Documentary Photography

- Realism and its fictional potential

- Media from early immigration waves into the Netherlands: which kind of photos?

EMPATHY OR DETACHMENT AND THE LEGITIMACY OF EXPOSURE

CHAPTER-03: reflecting on the political effects of objective information

- The phenomena of detachment and empathy regarding messages of social concern:

- Rancière and the spectator paradox: the performance of interventionism

- Exposure of intimacy and break of cultural codes: any role in detachment?

- The realism and its fatality versus the sense of personal empowerment

- Between Information and Action: social awareness and citizenship

- Marketing and ethics, the strategy differences between models and anti-models.

Conclusion:

- Revision of photographic tactics regarding social concerns: an allegorical approach to ethics.