Atelier - Specific Photography Studios 1

Subject guarantor:

Štěpán GRYGAR, Viktor KOLÁŘ, Robert PORTEL, Rudolf PREKOP

Name of lecturer(s):

Štěpán GRYGAR, Viktor KOLÁŘ, Robert PORTEL, Rudolf PREKOP

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

2/Studio of Documentary Photography: Viktor Kolář

Course outline:

Who is, we may ask, the ?documentary photographer? today, creating convincing personal images? After all he is either the one practicing ?empathy? toward people or merely observing them from afar as a ?bystander?. Both ways are equally efficient we may say. Or he/she is the one who understands working within ?spiritual? dimension that becomes the inner part of his/her pictures. Why is public space accessible to all practicing documentary photographers? So they visually communicate their ideas, visions with other segments of society in free manner .

Where does our creativity end and where starts a psychic illness? Why Zykmunt Bauman and his book ?Liquid modernity? does not leave us still and passive? What does ZEN have important to offer us documentary photographers? Aigu? Zen in the Art of Archery? Are manic shyness and desire for anonymity the traits of a street photographer in general? Where does the inspiration come from, what does the altered state of mind have to do with our photography.

Why?Synchronicity?, ?interconnectedness?? Is there any connection between the scientific and artistic? Initiation religious and artistic. Problems with ?identity? in today?s world. Our openness as a gate to other peoples of this world. Me and my life with documentary photography.Personal rhythm and looking for one´s voice, photographing as a constant matter of choice.

To obtain class-ticket from finished winter semester the student has to present a work in progress!

List of assignments ? (select one from the three/)

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?It is also about children who were abandoned by their parents and what became of them in the course of life?

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

Deadline: June 2013

Theme 2: ?Elderly people? /documentary project/

It can be considered as subject of great importance.The number of elderly people is growing, at the same time they feel cut off from the real world around them?many of them stand up to become active /senior age universities etc./We see people who suffer from all kind of dementia/Alzheimer disease!/ and still they try to retain dissent life.There are people around them who are of great help. Trace down how old people around you live and make strong series of photographs

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or colour pictures 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2013

Theme 3: ?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 2013

STUDIO OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

/ 307EAS 1/

Name of the Lecturer: Viktor Kolář prof.

Contact: viktor@viktorkolar.com , phone: 596 126 536

Consultations: Hartvigovský Palác, Tuesday /odd week/ 9:00-11:30

Time and Place:

Hartvigovský Palace Tuesday odd week 13:10-16:25 TR 328

Mode of study:

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.

4. STUDIO OF OUTDOOR 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. A condition for assessment is the handing-in of all photographs in digital form in TIF format with a resolution of 300 dpi and the longer side of each photograph being 250 mm.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

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's, and master's studies.

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 intentions to the instructor and it is mutually agreed upon, then implements the assignment.

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

Every year, three figures in photography, and/or also graphic design, are invited as lecturers to the Studio, selected by the instructor. These workshops are either one or two semesters long and take place according to the time schedule specified by the given lecturer. The purpose of this arrangement is the time-limited exposure of the students to a wide spectrum of individual figures, who provide all the participating students with their creative and real-life experiences, their opinions, attitudes, and spirit.

2. STUDIO OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Lecturer: prof. Viktor Kolář

Contact: viktor@viktorkolar.com, phone: 596 126 536

List of assignments.

/select one of the tree!/

Theme 1: „His/her/their“ story /documentary project/

A visual narrative about looking for one's path, a road we usually call the „road of life.“ Discovering such a road and then walking it seems to be more important than anything else. Before we step on such a road we face various problems such as: drugs culture, participation in extreme political movements, religious sects, along with personal failure, mental disorders, unemployment, abuse in childhood, homelessness, making such a search more problematic. Each person in my neighbourhood can tell a different story?

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

Deadline: June 2013

Theme 2: ?Elderly people? /documentary project/

It can be considered as subject of great importance.The number of elderly people is growing, at the same time they feel cut off from the real world around them?many of them stand up to become active /senior age universities etc./We see people who suffer from all kind of dementia/Alzheimer disease!/ and still they try to retain dissent life.There are people around them who are of great help. Trace down how old people around you live and make strong series of photographs

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or colour pictures 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2013

Theme 3: „Consumerism as a lifestyle“ /documentary project/

The Western model of consumerism may be blamed as responsible for the defeat of communist ideology and the further fall of communism in Czech Republic. The mode of consuming following may be a leading factor in shaping people?s lifes today. Purchasing products, using many levels of 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 an addiction and must be medically treated. 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 a lifestyle from your point of view.

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

Deadline: June 2013

3. STUDIO OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Lecturer: Štěpán Grygar

Contact: 732 661 938, grygar@famu.cz

Course Description:

I stress the importance of a 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's, and master's studies.

Assignment: (4P1, 5P1)

Description: This mandatory assignment is a 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 the assignment.

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

Time schedule: WS: Brief, written explanation by the end of November. The series must be a 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.

5. Studio ŠTĚPÁNKA ŠIMLOVÁ

The studio instruction is intended, particularlz for students who wish to get involved with th experimental concept of photography or using this medium, to broaden it into an installation venturing into the moving image, video or animation. Student works on their own project which is discussed prior and detailed. An emphasis is placed primarily on the long-term development of the project, which is required to have great expressive intentions reflecting its context, a search for the most appropriate form of expression, show production skills and be implemented in an exhibition space. The time frame for developing the project is one academic year, that is, two semester. Aside from the main project, students comple short-term assignments which arise from current topics in contemporary cultural and societal events.

Recommended or required reading:

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing, Penguin Books,London, 1972

Barthes, Roland: Camera lucida: reflections on photography, New York: Hill and Wang, 1981

Barthes, Roland: Criticim and Truth, London: Athlone, 1987

Barthes, Roland: Mythologies, London: J.Cape, 1972

Campany, David, Art and Photography, London, Phaidon 2003

Cotton Charlotte The Photography as Contemporary Art, London, Thames Hudson, 2004

Danto Arthur. The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, Columbia University Press, NY, 1986

Frizot, Michel, Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie, Larousse-Bordas, Paris, 1996

Flusser Vilem.

Towards a philosophy of photography, Reaktion, London 2000

Greenberg, Clement: Die Essenz der Moderne, Fundus, Dresden, 1997

Honnef, Klaus. Nichts als Kunst, Dumont, Koln, 1997

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art Today, Phaidon, London, 1995

Mayo, Nuria Enquita - Johnston Pamela (ed.), Viktor Burgin, Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tapies, 2001

Orvell, Miles. American Photography, Oxford University Press, London, 2003

Osborne Peter. Conceptual Art, Phaidon, London 2002

Reimschneider, Burkhard, Grosenick, Uta. Art at Turn of the Millenium, Taschen, Koln, 1999

Reimschneider, Burkhard, Grosenick, Uta. Art Now, Taschen 2002

Rusch Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century, Thames & Hudson, London 1999

Susan Sontag: On Photography, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY. 1977

Stiles, Kristine, Selz Peter. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, University of California Press, London,

Wall, Jeff. Scenarien im Bildraum der Wirklichkeit, Fundus, Dresden, 1997

Wells, Liz. The Photography Reader, Routledge, London, 2003

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.

4. STUDIO OF OUTDOOR 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. A condition for assessment is the handing-in of all photographs in digital form in TIF format with a resolution of 300 dpi and the longer side of each photograph being 250 mm.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

	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 TR 304 Učebna KF (Tržiště 20, Praha 1) GRYGAR Š. 14:00–17:15 ODD WEEK (paralelka 2) místnost TR 312 Ateliér KF (Tržiště 20, Praha 1) PREKOP R. 14:00–17:15 ODD WEEK (paralelka 3) místnost TR 306 Počítačová pracovna KF (Tržiště 20, Praha 1) PORTEL R. 14:00–17:15 ODD WEEK (paralelka 4)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	13:10–16:25	KOLÁŘ V.	Učebna KF Tržiště 20, Praha 1		paralelka 1
	Tue	14:00–17:15	GRYGAR Š.	Učebna KF Tržiště 20, Praha 1		paralelka 2
	Tue	14:00–17:15	PREKOP R.	Ateliér KF Tržiště 20, Praha 1		paralelka 3
	Tue	14:00–17:15	PORTEL R.	Počítačová pracovna KF Tržiště 20, Praha 1		paralelka 4

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Fotografie EN - bakalář (qualification subject)