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Atelier - Specific Photography Studios 4

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Course unit code:
307EAS4
Course unit title:
Atelier - Specific Photography Studios 4
Mode of delivery:
zkouška
Range:
26/S
Type of course unit:
compulsory subject
Level of course unit:
Year of study
3rd year
Semester when the course unit is delivered
letní
Number of ECTS credits allocated:
5
Garant předmětu:
Štěpánka ŠIMLOVÁ, Štěpán GRYGAR, Viktor KOLÁŘ, Rudolf PREKOP, Robert PORTEL
Name of lecturer(s):
Štěpánka ŠIMLOVÁ, Štěpán GRYGAR, Viktor KOLÁŘ, Rudolf PREKOP, Robert PORTEL
Study Objectives:

Course Outline:

The objective of the Studio of Creative Photography is to support and further develop the individual creative skills of the students as much as possible. Emphasis is put on conceptual work and creativity.

Course Description:

Importance is placed on maintaining a critical distance from one's own work, which results in its classification within a wider context. The Studio includes theoretical seminars, consultations on the final exhibition, bachelor and master's series, and a compulsory assignment for third- and fourth-year students. Third-year students on the theme „Photography and Text“.

Mode of delivery:

1. STUDIO OF STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY

The Studio includes lectures, seminars, consultations of final exhibition, bachelor, and master series.

Assignments: (assignments 4P1, 5P1)

Part of the Studio is one mandatory assignment for:

3rd year students: FIGURE - ENVIRONMENT - PROPS, collection of 8 and more photos

4th year students: MAN - publication or its mutation, minimum 15 photos.

5th year students: PROBLEM - arbitrary form of execution.

2. STUDIO OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

List of assignments ? 4th year (choice between the two)

Theme 1: ?His/her/their? story /documentary project/

Visual narrative about looking for one?s path, a road we usually call a ?road of life?. Discovering such a road and then keep walking on it seems to be more important than anything else. Before we step on such a road we face various problems as for instance: drug culture, participation in extreme political movements, religious sects, etc. next to personal failures, suffering from mental disorders, unemployment, abuse in childhood, homelessness, will make such a search more problematic. Almost each person in my neighbourhood can tell a different story?

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or color images of cca 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2008

Theme 2: ?Consumerism as a lifestyle? /documentary project/

Western model of consumerism can be blamed as responsible for defeat of communist ideology and further fall of communism in Czech Republic. The mode of consuming that comes after as a leading factor in shaping people?s lifes today. Purchasing products, using many level services in huge shopping centres as Tesco, Kaufland, Ikea, etc.are leading them to spend more time there. For some people consumption is becoming an obsession with all side effects. It becomes a drug after all and must be medically cured. People buy things they do not need, spend money they did not earn. They also try to buy new identities on the market. Record on your film all possible manifestations of such lifestyle from your point of view.

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or color images cca 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2008

3. STUDIO OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Assignment: (4P1, 5P1)

Description: This mandatory assignment is practical and students have to submit at least eight photographs. Emphasis is put on the ability to come up with an innovative solution to the given assignment. Conceptual work is recommended. A written explanation must be handed in prior to starting with the assignment.

Assignment: To create a series of at least eight photographs asan individual interpretation of specific theme (not mere illustration). The theme will be announced in the beginning of semester.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Completion of „Studio - Specific Photography Studios 1 -3.“

Recommended optional programme components
Course contents:

1. STUDIO OF STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY

Supervised by: Mgr. Rudo Prekop

Contact: 737 609 562, rudoprekop@hotmail.com

The Studio includes lectures, seminars, consultations of final exhibition, bachelor, and master series.

Assignments: (assignments 4P1, 5P1)

Part of the Studio is one mandatory assignment for:

3rd year students: FIGURE - ENVIRONMENT - PROPS, collection of 8 and more photos

4th year students: MAN - publication or its mutation, minimum 15 photos.

5th year students: PROBLEM - arbitrary form of execution.

Time schedule: Prior to the beginning of the photographic work, student explains his or her intention to the pedagogue and once agreed on within a mutual dialogue, implements the assignment.

Deadline for submission: by the end of the summer semester - second half of May.

Every year, three personalities from the area of photography, but also graphic design, are invited as lecturers within the Studio, based on the selection of the supervising pedagogue. These workshops are either one or two semesters long and take place in frequency according to the time schedule specified by the given lecturer. The purpose of this arrangement is the time-limited confrontation of students with a wide spectrum of individual personalities, who provide all the participating students with their creative and real-life experience, their opinions, attitudes, and spirit.

2. STUDIO OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Name of the lecturer: prof. Viktor Kolář

Contact: viktor.kolar@cbox.cz , phone: 596 126 536

List of assignments ? 4th year (choice between the two)

Theme 1: ?His/her/their? story /documentary project/

Visual narrative about looking for one?s path, a road we usually call a ?road of life?. Discovering such a road and then keep walking on it seems to be more important than anything else. Before we step on such a road we face various problems as for instance: drug culture, participation in extreme political movements, religious sects, etc. next to personal failures, suffering from mental disorders, unemployment, abuse in childhood, homelessness, will make such a search more problematic. Almost each person in my neighbourhood can tell a different story?

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or color images of cca 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2008

Theme 2: ?Consumerism as a lifestyle? /documentary project/

Western model of consumerism can be blamed as responsible for defeat of communist ideology and further fall of communism in Czech Republic. The mode of consuming that comes after as a leading factor in shaping people?s lifes today. Purchasing products, using many level services in huge shopping centres as Tesco, Kaufland, Ikea, etc.are leading them to spend more time there. For some people consumption is becoming an obsession with all side effects. It becomes a drug after all and must be medically cured. People buy things they do not need, spend money they did not earn. They also try to buy new identities on the market. Record on your film all possible manifestations of such lifestyle from your point of view.

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or color images cca 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2008

3. STUDIO OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Name of the Lecturer: Štěpán Grygar

Contact: 732 661 938, grygar@famu.cz

Course Description:

I give the importance to critical distance from one?s own work that results in its classification within a wider context. The Studio consists of theoretical seminars, consultations of final exhibition, bachelor, and master series.

Assignment: (4P1, 5P1)

Description: This mandatory assignment is practical and students have to submit at least eight photographs. Emphasis is put on the ability to come up with an innovative solution to the given assignment. Conceptual work is recommended. A written explanation must be handed in prior to starting with the assignment.

Assignment: To create a series of at least eight photographs asan individual interpretation of specific theme (not mere illustration). The theme will be announced in the beginning of semester.

Time schedule: WS: Brief, written explanation by the end of November. The series must be in a shape of work in progress by the end of the winter semester.

SS: The final output (eight photographs) has to be submitted by the end of the summer semester.

Study materials:

2. STUDIO OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Viktor Kolář: „Seminar in documentary Photography“, AMU-FAMU 2000.

Eugen Herrigel: „Zen in The Art of Archery“.

Carla Gustav Jung: „Volumes“

Zykmunt Bauman: „Liquid modernity“

The other important titles for you will be mentioned during our seminars.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assessment methods and criteria

1. STUDIO OF STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY

Graded credit: granted on the basis of submission of all prescribed assignments and evaluation of submitted photographs. The basic pre-requisites for grading are the student?s participation within at least 60% of the lectures, participation in posted mandatory joint consultations specified in the beginning of the course, as well as the submission of agreed on photographs in digital form ? resolution 300 dpi with the length of the longer side of the format being 250mm.

2. STUDIO OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

The student?s assignments will be evaluated by supervising teacher /V.K./, also the personal attendance of the seminars and workshops /hours of attendance set by the Department/, individual engagement will contribute as well to final grading.

3. STUDIO OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Graded credit: granted on the basis of submission of all prescribed assignments and evaluation of submitted photographs. The basic pre-requisites for grading are the student?s participation within at least 60% of the lectures, participation in posted mandatory joint consultations specified in the beginning of the course, as well as the submission of agreed on photographs in digital form ? resolution 300 dpi with the length of the longer side of the format being 210mm.

Language of instruction:
English
Work placement(s):
Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
Course web page:
Note:
Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:
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
místnost TR 328
Učebna KF

(Tržiště 20, Praha 1)
KOLÁŘ V.
13:10–16:25
ODD WEEK

(paralelka 1)
místnost 112
Učebna KF

(Lažanský palác)
ŠIMLOVÁ Š.
14:00–17:15
ODD WEEK

(paralelka 5)
místnost TR 306
Počítačová pracovna KF

(Tržiště 20, Praha 1)
PORTEL R.
14:00–17:15
ODD WEEK

(paralelka 4)
místnost TR 304
Učebna KF

(Tržiště 20, Praha 1)
GRYGAR Š.
14:00–17:15
ODD WEEK

(paralelka 2)
místnost 113
Ateliér A KF

(Lažanský palác)
PREKOP R.
14:00–17:15
ODD WEEK

(paralelka 3)
Fri
Thu
Fri
Datum Den Čas Tutor Místo Notes Č. paralelky
Tue 13:10–16:25 KOLÁŘ V. Učebna KF
Tržiště 20, Praha 1
paralelka 1
Tue 14:00–17:15 ŠIMLOVÁ Š. Učebna KF
Lažanský palác
paralelka 5
Tue 14:00–17:15 PORTEL R. Počítačová pracovna KF
Tržiště 20, Praha 1
paralelka 4
Tue 14:00–17:15 GRYGAR Š. Učebna KF
Tržiště 20, Praha 1
paralelka 2
Tue 14:00–17:15 PREKOP R. Ateliér A KF
Lažanský palác
paralelka 3
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