Photography of Landscape 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
307EPHL2 exam 2 39 exercise hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 21 to 31 hours of self-study English

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Předmět zajišťuje Department of Photography

Contents

The aim of this course is to deepen and gain new experience in landscape photography. The course is designed with an emphasis on several days of study and work trips to predetermined locations. Students will be introduced to the selected site, its history and geological distinctiveness in theory classes. By studying photographs of authors who have worked on the site, students will gain a theoretical basis for their subsequent work. The practical camp will take place in the pre-spring period. The aim is to capitalize on all the knowledge and skills acquired in the courses related to classical photography, experimenting within the framework of previous experience with all the techniques and processes of photographic imaging.

The main themes

1/ introduction to the specifics of the locations depicted - examples of processing, natural and historical specifics - sources of inspiration

2-3/ introduction to the chosen location, using photographs, film, texts and maps. Choice of a thematic focus or specification of the interest of individual students for the treatment of the site. Choosing the appropriate technology that would best suit the chosen concept

4-9/ Targeted work at the site, dividing into creative groups and making maximum economic use of technology, materials and transport. Formation of a special group for the wet collodion process. Intensive joint consultation and discussion - joint search for solutions to problems, presentation of individual work at the site.

10/ Consultation of the defined deliverables - proofreading.

11-12/ joint presentation, final selection of outputs, preparation for joint exhibition,

Learning outcomes

The listener shall submit:

A comprehensive set of at least 8 photographs that characterize the site from the individual student's point of view that has been pre-approved by the teacher. Negative format for black-and-white photographs at least medium format or larger. For color photography, color negative, inversion or digital camera if agreed upon.

The output is either 8 black and white photographs 30 x 40 cm on baryta mat, or 8 A3 colour prints, or other formats such as Polaroids, slides, cyanotypes, ferrotypes or other techniques as previously consulted in point 2.

The learner has deepened their knowledge and skills in work related to landscape imaging, and is able to work in a team to prepare a representative exhibition unit. Link technical knowledge to their brief and approach its application in an innovative way.

Prerequisites and other requirements

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Literature

Required:

Cheetham Mark: Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019

Koudelka Josef, Barré Francois: Industries, Fragment, 2017

Godfrey Anne C.: Active Landscape Photography Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture, Taylor & Francis, 2020

Recommended:

Lippard Lucy R.: Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West, The New Press, 2014

Koudelka Josef, Irena Šorfová: De-creazione, Národní galerie v Praze, 2018

Malpas William: Land Art in Close-up, Crescent Moon Publishing, 2008

Kastner Jefferey: Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon, 2010

Monoian Elizabeth, Ferry Robert: Land Art of the 21st Century: Land Art Generator Initiative at Fly Ranch, Hirmer, 2020

Locke Adrain, Shane Robert, Bowditch Lucy: Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of the Americas, Phaidon, 2013

Iversen Margaret: Beyond Pleasure - Freud, Lacan, Barthes, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017

Patrizio Andrew: The ecological eye: Assembling an ecocritical art history, Rethinking Art's Histories, 2021

Malpas William: Land Art in Close-up, Crescent Moon Publishing, 2008

Monoian Elizabeth, Ferry Robert: Land Art of the 21st Century: Land Art Generator Initiative at Fly Ranch, Hirmer, 2020

Demos T. J.: Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, Sternberg Press, 2016

Koudelka Josef, Irena Šorfová: De-creazione, Národní galerie v Praze, 2018

Koudelka Josef, Barré Francois: Industries, Fragment, 2017

Koudelka Josef: Wall, Aperture, 2013

Helmreich Anne: Nature's Truth- Photography, Painting, and Science in Victorian Britain, 2016

Malpas William: Land Art in Close-up, Crescent Moon Publishing, 2008

Kastner Jefferey: Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon, 2010

Monoian Elizabeth, Ferry Robert: Land Art of the 21st Century: Land Art Generator Initiative at Fly Ranch, Hirmer, 2020

Evaluation methods and criteria

Active participation in all events within the course, 80% attendance, independent creative work, involvement in the team

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Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans