Master Thesis Seminar 2

Not scheduled

Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
307EMAS2 credit 5 4 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 83 to 108 hours of self-study English summer

Subject guarantor

Tomáš DVOŘÁK

Name of lecturer(s)

Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA, Noemi PURKRÁBKOVÁ, Michal ŠIMŮNEK

Department

The subject provides Department of Photography

Contents

The seminar is devoted to ongoing consultations of the theoretical thesis and preparation for the state examinations in the history and theory of photography. It combines individual consultations with tutors and seminars on the state examination topics under the guidance of the supervisor.

Learning outcomes

He/she knows the basic literature on SZZ, can talk about individual topics and independently search for additional information.

Prerequisites and other requirements

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Literature

Required:

Edwards, Steve. Photography: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University

Recommended:

Batchen, Geoffrey. Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2001. Batchen, Geoffrey. Burning with Desire. The Conception of Photography. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997.

Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1990. Durden, Mark (ed.). Fifty Key Writers on Photography. London: Routledge, 2013.

Freund, Gisèle. Photography & Society. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980.

Frizot, Michel a kol. A New History of Photography. Köln: Könemann, 1998.

Goldberg, Vicki (ed.). Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981.

Hannavy, John (ed.). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Vol. 1+2. New York – London: Routledge, 2008.

Larsen, Jonas, Sandbye, Mette (eds.). Digital Snaps. The New Face of Photography. London: I. B. Tauris, 2014. Lister, Martin (ed.), 2013. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture. London: Routledge, 2013.

Sekula, Alan. Photography Against the Grain. Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984.

Tagg, John. The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988.

Warren, Lynne (ed.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. Vol. 1+2. New York – London: Routledge, 2006.

Wells, Liz (ed.). Photography: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge, 2015. Zylinska, Joanna. Nonhuman Photography. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2017.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Regular attendance at seminars, elaboration of the thesis by 17 April 2026

Note

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Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans