Creative Photography 1
- Course unit code:
- 307ECP1
- Course unit title:
- Creative Photography 1
- Mode of delivery:
- zkouška
- Range:
- 26/S
- Type of course unit:
- compulsory subject
- Level of course unit:
- Year of study
- 1st year
- Semester when the course unit is delivered
- letní
- Number of ECTS credits allocated:
- 3
- Garant předmětu:
- Štěpán GRYGAR
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Štěpán GRYGAR
- Study Objectives:
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Developement of student?s own creativity, which nevertheless is subject to technical quality.
- Mode of delivery:
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Assignments: (assignment 1P6)
Create 8 photographs of spatial objects, which will separately emphasize the following:
1. flat and linear composition
2. rhythm
3. balanced composition
4. dynamic composition
A higher level of abstraction is recommended. Composition of all photographs must be inventive. Assignments 2-4 should fit together
Technical requirements: Assignment 1 must be done through traditional negative/positive process without consequent digital manipulation and format of the positive is to be at least 30x40 cm. The rest of assignments can be black & white or color photographs, or digital prints. Format will be approved by the teacher.
Deadlines: The schedule will be announced during the course. All assignments have to be finished by the end of the summer semester.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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no prerequisites
- Recommended optional programme components
- Course contents:
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Course Description:
What I consider important is the students? ability of independent work which should express itself even within this seminar. This is the reason why I have specified individual parts of the assignment in such a way that they would provide sufficient space for the student?s own creativity, which nevertheless is subject to technical quality.
Assignments: (assignment 1P6)
Create 8 photographs of spatial objects, which will separately emphasize the following:
1. flat and linear composition
2. rhythm
3. balanced composition
4. dynamic composition
A higher level of abstraction is recommended. Composition of all photographs must be inventive. Assignments 2-4 should fit together
Technical requirements: Assignment 1 must be done through traditional negative/positive process without consequent digital manipulation and format of the positive is to be at least 30x40 cm. The rest of assignments can be black & white or color photographs, or digital prints. Format will be approved by the teacher.
Deadlines: The schedule will be announced during the course. All assignments have to be finished by the end of the summer semester.
Name of the Lecturer: Štěpán Grygar
Contact: 732 661 938, grygar@famu.cz
- Study materials:
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List of Recommended literature:
Arnheim Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception, University of California Press, London 1997
Baxandall Michael, Shadows and enlightenment, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997
Berger John, Ways of Seeing, London, Penguin Books 1979
Francastel Pierre, Peinture et societé, Denoel/Gonthier, Paris, 1997
Kent Sarah, Eyewitness Art-Composition, Dorling Kinsley Limited, London 1995
Gombrich E. H. Art and Illusion, Princeton University Press 2000, Princetown and Oxford
Kandinsky, Wassily, Complete writings on art, Farber, London, 1982
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Assessment methods and criteria
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Assignments: (assignment 1P6)
Create 8 photographs of spatial objects, which will separately emphasize the following:
1. flat and linear composition
2. rhythm
3. balanced composition
4. dynamic composition
A higher level of abstraction is recommended. Composition of all photographs must be inventive. Assignments 2-4 should fit together
Technical requirements: Assignment 1 must be done through traditional negative/positive process without consequent digital manipulation and format of the positive is to be at least 30x40 cm. The rest of assignments can be black & white or color photographs, or digital prints. Format will be approved by the teacher.
Deadlines: The schedule will be announced during the course. All assignments have to be finished by the end of the summer semester.
- Language of instruction:
- English
- Work placement(s):
- Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
- Course web page:
- Note:
- Schedule for winter semester 2010/2011:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- Schedule for summer semester 2010/2011:
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06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon Tue Fri Thu Fri - The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Fotografie EN - bakalář (qualification subject)