Contemporary Photography
- Course unit code:
- 307SOF
- Course unit title:
- Contemporary Photography
- Mode of delivery:
- zkouška
- Range:
- 2/T
- Type of course unit:
- Study plan Animovaná tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Režie - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Režie - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Kamera - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Produkce - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Produkce - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování – optional subject - Level of course unit:
- Year of study
- Study plan Fotografie CZ - bakalář – 2nd nebo 3rd year
- Semester when the course unit is delivered
- zimní
- Number of ECTS credits allocated:
- 2
- Garant předmětu:
- Robert SILVERIO
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Robert SILVERIO
- Study Objectives:
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seznámení studentů s tendencemi ve fotografii výtvarné i dokumentární za poslední dvě dekády
- Mode of delivery:
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přednášky a vložené studentské tematické
prezentace/semináře
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
- Recommended optional programme components
- Course contents:
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A lecture cycle of modern photography focused on the development of photography from the 1990s to the present and in all forms - from staged through documentary to post-conceptual. This course covers photography inter-medial overlapping.
Aside from and introduction to basic facts there is an emphasis on analysis and effects of the given development.
- Study materials:
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Books and memoirs:
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
William Eggleston's Guide
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
Theory 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 (Themes and Movements)
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Assessment methods and criteria
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The student is required, during study, to prepare about a 15min presentation of the creations and analysis of the creation of one photographer, or a tendency or analysis of a theory issue topic in the area of contemporary photography. The presentation requires the preparation of image material and a list of literature. The topic is proposed by the student but must be approved by the instructor. At the end of the year is an oral exam - a discussion over prominent representatives of tendencies in the last 2 decades.
- Language of instruction:
- Czech
- Work placement(s):
- Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
- Course web page:
- Note:
- Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:
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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 Datum Den Čas Tutor Místo Notes Č. paralelky Mon 12:20–13:55 SILVERIO R. Učebna KF
Tržiště 20, Praha 1přednášková par. 1 - Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
- Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
- Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
- Animovaná tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
- Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
- Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (optional subject)
- Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
- Režie - magistr (optional subject)
- Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
- Kamera - magistr (optional subject)
- Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
- Produkce - magistr (optional subject)
- Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
- Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
- Střihová skladba - magistr (optional subject)
- Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
- Zvuková tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
- Fotografie CZ - bakalář (qualification subject, optional subject)
- Fotografie CZ - magistr (optional subject)
- Audiovizuální studia - magistr (optional subject)
- Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)