Seminar on Theory Photography 3
- Course unit code:
- 307ES3
- Course unit title:
- Seminar on Theory Photography 3
- Mode of delivery:
- zápočet
- Range:
- 13/S
- Type of course unit:
- Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr – compulsory subject
Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování – compulsory subject - Level of course unit:
- Year of study
- Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr – 1st nebo 2nd year
Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování – 1st nebo 2nd year - Semester when the course unit is delivered
- zimní
- Number of ECTS credits allocated:
- 1
- Garant předmětu:
- Robert SILVERIO
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Robert SILVERIO
- Study Objectives:
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study of photography from philosophical, semiotic and sociologic point of view
- Mode of delivery:
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seminar
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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none
- Recommended optional programme components
- Course contents:
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Description:
It is going more into deep but methodologically and thematically it is very much the sma as Theory of photograpohy I in BA study. Reading of theoretical literature on photography (and culture in general) and its critical judgement is demanded. It connects photography with semiotics and interculturual disciplines.
Name of the Lecturer: Robert Silverio PhD.
silverio@volny.cz
- Study materials:
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Adorno Theodor: The Culture Industry, Routledge, London 2001
Barrett Terry: Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images
Barthes Rola nd: Camera Lucida, any edition
Barthes Roland: Image, Music Text, Hill and Wang, NY 1978
Benjamin Walter: Work in the Time of Mechanical Reproduction any edition
Bourdieu Pierre: Photography: A Middle-brow Art, Stanford University Press, Stanford 1990
Victor Burgin: The End of Art Theory (Communications & Culture)
Burgin Victor (ed.): Thinking Photography, MacMillan Press , London 1982
Burgin Victor: In/Different Spaces, University of California Press Berkley and Los Angeles 1996
Eco, Umberto: History of Beauty, any edition
Eco, Umberto: Opened Work, any edition
Carroll Noel: A Philosophy of Mass Art
Flusser Vilém: Towards a Philosophy of Photography, European Photography, Göttingen 1984
McLuhan Marshal: Understanding Media, McGraw-Hill, New York 1965
Squires Carol: OverExpeosed, The New Press, NY 1999
Sontag Susan: On Photography, any edition after 1977
Sontag, Susan: Regardong the Pain of the Ohers
Tagg: John The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories
Wells, Liz (ed.) The Photography Reader, Routledge, London 2003
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Assessment methods and criteria
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Assignments:
Students shall be asked to prepare papers on various texts (see lit.) and also on various exhibitions (according to the given possibilities). The papers request deep-going research. Literature used must be stated. They will present them in front of the other students and thus subdue these essays to their critical discussion.
[Each student has to give one presentation for one semester.]
Criteria of grading:
-the quallity and the depth of analysis of a astudents' presentation of theoretical problem
- participation in the discussion during other students presentations
- Language of instruction:
- English
- Work placement(s):
- Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
- Course web page:
- Note:
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On alternate year for 1. and 2. class (2010/11).
- 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 - magistr (qualification subject)
- Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování (qualification subject)