Creative Photography 2
- Course unit code:
- 307ECP2
- Course unit title:
- Creative Photography 2
- Mode of delivery:
- zápočet
- Range:
- 13/S
- Type of course unit:
- compulsory subject
- Level of course unit:
- Year of study
- 2nd year
- Semester when the course unit is delivered
- zimní
- Number of ECTS credits allocated:
- 1
- Garant předmětu:
- Štěpán GRYGAR
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Štěpán GRYGAR
- Study Objectives:
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The assignments were selected in such a way, that they would provide for maximum level of independence within the students? creative work with the objective to channel their future interest mainly on the area of creative work
- Mode of delivery:
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Assignments: (assignment 2P4)
WS: I. Create one photograph, composition of which will be derived from some classical still-life painting (for example Dutch still-life from the 17th century), but you do not have to use the same objects.
II. Create photographs of different kind of modern still-lives:
a.apparently stylized (at least two photographs)
b.unaestheticized
Technical requirements: photographs of the WS have to be at least 30x40cm in size, the first photograph (one inspired by an old painting) has to be done traditionally through the negative/positive technique without digital manipulation. Others, according to student?s own choice, can be either classical or digital prints.
Deadlines: written explanation by the end of October, photographs by the end of the summer semester
SS: Create a series of still-lives (at least six photographs), style of which and approach to will be specified in a written explanation which has to be handed in prior to starting to work on this part of the assignment. This work is to be of a free and creative nature.
Technical requirements: Format and technology depend on explanation and will be approved by teacher, traditional or digital prints
Deadlines: written explanation by the end of February, all photographs by the end of the summer semester.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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Completion of „Creative Photography 1.“
- Recommended optional programme components
- Course contents:
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Course Description:
The ability to ?construct? an image, including the corresponding tonal and light solutions, is the prime condition for fulfilling these assignments. The assignments were selected in such a way, that they would provide for maximum level of independence within the students? creative work with the objective to channel their future interest mainly on the area of creative work
Assignments: (assignment 2P4)
WS: I. Create one photograph, composition of which will be derived from some classical still-life painting (for example Dutch still-life from the 17th century), but you do not have to use the same objects.
II. Create photographs of different kind of modern still-lives:
a.apparently stylized (at least two photographs)
b.unaestheticized
Technical requirements: photographs of the WS have to be at least 30x40cm in size, the first photograph (one inspired by an old painting) has to be done traditionally through the negative/positive technique without digital manipulation. Others, according to student?s own choice, can be either classical or digital prints.
Deadlines: written explanation by the end of October, photographs by the end of the summer semester
SS: Create a series of still-lives (at least six photographs), style of which and approach to will be specified in a written explanation which has to be handed in prior to starting to work on this part of the assignment. This work is to be of a free and creative nature.
Technical requirements: Format and technology depend on explanation and will be approved by teacher, traditional or digital prints
Deadlines: written explanation by the end of February, all photographs by the end of the summer semester.
- Study materials:
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Arnheim Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception, University of California Press, London 1997
Baxandall Michael, Shadows and enlightenment, New Haven; Yale University Press, London 1995
Berger John. Ways of Seeing. Penguin Books 1972
Francastel Pierre, Peinture et société, Denoel/Gonthier, Paris 1977
Gombrich E. H., Art and Illusion, Princeton University Press 2000 Princetown and Oxford
Hoy Anne H. Fabrications: Staged, Altered and appropriated Photographs, Abeville Press, New York 1987
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Assessment methods and criteria
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Assignments: (assignment 2P4)
WS: I. Create one photograph, composition of which will be derived from some classical still-life painting (for example Dutch still-life from the 17th century), but you do not have to use the same objects.
II. Create photographs of different kind of modern still-lives:
a.apparently stylized (at least two photographs)
b.unaestheticized
Technical requirements: photographs of the WS have to be at least 30x40cm in size, the first photograph (one inspired by an old painting) has to be done traditionally through the negative/positive technique without digital manipulation. Others, according to student?s own choice, can be either classical or digital prints.
Deadlines: written explanation by the end of October, photographs by the end of the summer semester
SS: Create a series of still-lives (at least six photographs), style of which and approach to will be specified in a written explanation which has to be handed in prior to starting to work on this part of the assignment. This work is to be of a free and creative nature.
Technical requirements: Format and technology depend on explanation and will be approved by teacher, traditional or digital prints
Deadlines: written explanation by the end of February, all photographs 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:
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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 - Schedule for summer semester 2010/2011:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Fotografie EN - bakalář (qualification subject)