Seminar on the Final Master Thesis 2
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 307ESDP2 | credit | 4 | 2 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 79 to 99 hours of self-study | English | summer |
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Contents
in the seminar, the student will:
(1) finish the thesis under the guidance of the supervisor - the finished thesis must fulfil all formal criteria, have at least 40 pages (72,000 characters), and be submitted by 21 April 2023 in print and electronically through the information system KOS
(2) participate in a preparatory seminar for the final state exam in history and theory of photography
Learning outcomes
completion of the thesis, preparation for state exams
Prerequisites and other requirements
Seminar on the Final Master Thesis 1
Literature
recommended literature for the thesis is based on its particular theme
recommended literature for final state exams from theory and history of photography:
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. Reflections on Photography. New York: Hill & Wang, 1980.
Barthes, Roland. Image, Music, Text. London: Fontana Press, 1977, pp. 15–51.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Noonday Press, 1972.
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.
Benjamin, Walter. On Photography. London: Reaktion Books, 2015.
Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media. Cambridge – London: Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 19–165, 271–314.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: BBC & Penguin Books, 1972.
Birgus, Vladimír – Jan Mlčoch. Czech Photography of the 20th Century. Prague: KANT, 2010.
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1990.
Durden, Mark (ed.). Fifty Key Writers on Photography. London: Routledge, 2013.
Edwards, Steve. Photography: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Flusser, Vilém. Into the Universe of Technical Images. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Flusser, Vilém. Towards a Philosophy of Photography. London: Reaktion Books, 2000.
Foster, Hal et al., Art Since 1900. Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011.
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.
Mrázková, Daniela (ed.), What Is Photography: 150 Years of Photography. Prague: Videopress, 1989.
Sekula, Alan. Photography Against the Grain. Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984.
Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2003.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography. London: Penguin Books, 1977.
Sturken, Marita – Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking. An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009.
Tagg, John. The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988.
Trachtenberg, Alan. Classic Essays on Photography. New Haven, Conn.: Leete’s Island Books, 1980.
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
to receive credits for the course, you must:
- submit the final text of the thesis in print and electronically through KOS by 19 April 2022
- participate in all seminars and in regular consultations with the supervisor
Schedule for winter semester 2023/2024:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2023/2024:
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| Fri | 09:50–11:25 | Tomáš DVOŘÁK | Room No. 112 Lažanský palác |
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The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Photography EN - Master-1920 (required subject)