Contemporary Photography

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Synopsis:

Both creative and documentary photography from the 1990s till now will be covered on the background of the relevant social situation. The lectures will also cover interdisciplinary fields between photography and other fields. This course is similar in terms of structure and student participation to th„History of Photography“, and it differs mainly by the period it focuses on. Students should read not just books on the theme but also magazines on contemporary photography (Aperture, Camera Austria, European Photography, Flash Art etc.)

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Study Objectives:

Outline and Syllabus:

Assignment: During the course of the school year, students have presentation (short lecture in front of the other students) on a photographer or a theme fiting in the subject and plus write a summary on it. The selected subject is limited only by the time period covered in the course (from 90´s till now).

Grading:

Test: 40%

Participation in discussions: 10%

Presentation and summary: 40%

Participation in lectures: 10% (nevertheless at least 60% participation is mandatory)

Name of the Lecturer: Robert Silverio PhD.

Contact: 267 711 836 , silverio@volny.cz

Study materials:

Authors´ Art Books and Monographies:

Araki by Araki: The Photographer's Personal Selection 1963-2002

Tina Barney Photographs: Theaters of Manners

Nancy Burson: Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson

Jean-Marc Bustamante: Tableaux, 1978-1982

Sophie Calle: Did You See Me?

Luc Delahaye: Winterreise

Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites

Donna Ferrato: Living with the Enemy

Robert Frank: Moving Out

Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Andreas Gursky: Photographs from 1984 to the Present by Marie Luise Syring

Naoya Hatakeyama

Jenny Holzer

Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002

Brabara Kruger: Love for Sale

The Essential Duane Michals -- by Marco Livingstone

Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective

Boris Mikhailov: Case History

Tracey Moffatt: laudanum

Tracey Moffatt

Mariko Mori by Mariko Mori, Lisa Corrin

Ryuji Miyamoto

Walter Niedermayr: Zivile Operationen/Civil Operations

Robert Polidori: Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl

Richard Prince by Jeff Rian, Rosetta Brooks

Richard Prince: Women

Arnulf Rainer: Retrospective 1948-2000

Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places : The Complete Works L. Tillman, S. Schmidt-Wulffen

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects

Thomas Struth: 1977-2002 by Douglas Eklund

Hiroshi Sugimoto Portraits¨

Hiroshi Sugimoto Architecture of Time

Sam Taylor-Wood

Juergen Teller: Zwei Schäuferle mit Kloß und eine Kinderportion Schnitzel mit Pommes Frites

Juergen Teller: Märchenstüberl

Wolfgang Tillmans: Concorde

Wolfgang Tillmans : If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters

Jeff Wall by Thierry Duve

Teoretical Literature:

Adam Brooks: Subjective Realities: The Refco Collection of Contemporary Photography

Victor Burgin: The End of Art Theory (Communications & Culture)

Victor Burgin: The End of Art Theory (Communications & Culture)

David Campany: Art and Photography

Noel Carroll: A Philosophy of Mass Art

Charlotte Cotton:

The Photograph as Contemporary Art

Umberto Eco: The Open Work

Umberto Eco: History of Beauty

Barbara Kruger: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Warren Neidich: Blow-Up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain

Diane Neumaier , Anne Wilkes Tucker: Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies

Peter Osborne: Conceptual Art (Themes and Movements)

Peter Weiermair: The Measure of All Things: The Synthesis of Photography and Text in Contemporary Art

Liz Wells: The Photography Reader

Tracey Warr: The Artist's Body

Note:

On alternate year for 2. and 3. class (2010/11).

Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Fotografie EN - bakalář (qualification subject)