Contemporary Photography

Subject guarantor:

Robert SILVERIO

Name of lecturer(s):

Robert SILVERIO

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Introduction to contemporary tendencies in photography. Analysis of those tendencies.

Mode of study:

Přednáškový cyklus s projekcí děl. Na jedné přednášce obvykle jeden až dva vstupy studentských prezentací - viz Metody a kritéria hodnocení.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Series of lectures with a focus on the tendencies in world photography after 1990. The lecture series continues the Pentium history of photography. A knowledge of tendencies in world photography is required. Traditional forms of documentary photography as well as staged photography, post-conceptual photography and photography combined with other media are covered.

Recommended or required reading:

Art Books and Monographies:

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

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

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

The student is required, during study, to prepare about a 15min presentation of a photographer, theory issue or other topic in the area of contemporary photography. The presentation is a display of image material, introduction to facts, theory analysis of the photographer's work or other given issue and presentation of literature. The topic selected is agreed upon with the instructor. At the end of the semester there is an oral exam, a discussion over three randomly selected artists or topics in the given period.

Course web page:

Note:

On alternate year for 2. and 3. class (2010/11).

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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)