Creative Photography 1

Subject guarantor:

Štěpán GRYGAR

Name of lecturer(s):

Štěpán GRYGAR

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Developement of student?s own creativity, which nevertheless is subject to technical quality.

Mode of study:

Assignments: (assignment 1P6)

Create 8 photographs of spatial objects, which will separately emphasize the following:

1. flat and linear composition

2. rhythm

3. balanced composition

4. dynamic composition

A higher level of abstraction is recommended. Composition of all photographs must be inventive. Assignments 2-4 should fit together

Technical requirements: Assignment 1 must be done through traditional negative/positive process without consequent digital manipulation and format of the positive is to be at least 30x40 cm. The rest of assignments can be black & white or color photographs, or digital prints. Format will be approved by the teacher.

Deadlines: The schedule will be announced during the course. All assignments have to be finished by the end of the summer semester.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

no prerequisites

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Course Description:

What I consider important is the students? ability of independent work which should express itself even within this seminar. This is the reason why I have specified individual parts of the assignment in such a way that they would provide sufficient space for the student?s own creativity, which nevertheless is subject to technical quality.

Assignments: (assignment 1P6)

Create 8 photographs of spatial objects, which will separately emphasize the following:

1. flat and linear composition

2. rhythm

3. balanced composition

4. dynamic composition

A higher level of abstraction is recommended. Composition of all photographs must be inventive. Assignments 2-4 should fit together

Technical requirements: Assignment 1 must be done through traditional negative/positive process without consequent digital manipulation and format of the positive is to be at least 30x40 cm. The rest of assignments can be black & white or color photographs, or digital prints. Format will be approved by the teacher.

Deadlines: The schedule will be announced during the course. All assignments have to be finished by the end of the summer semester.

Name of the Lecturer: Štěpán Grygar

Contact: 732 661 938, grygar@famu.cz

Recommended or required reading:

List of Recommended literature:

Arnheim Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception, University of California Press, London 1997

Baxandall Michael, Shadows and enlightenment, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997

Berger John, Ways of Seeing, London, Penguin Books 1979

Francastel Pierre, Peinture et societé, Denoel/Gonthier, Paris, 1997

Kent Sarah, Eyewitness Art-Composition, Dorling Kinsley Limited, London 1995

Gombrich E. H. Art and Illusion, Princeton University Press 2000, Princetown and Oxford

Kandinsky, Wassily, Complete writings on art, Farber, London, 1982

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Assignments: (assignment 1P6)

Create 8 photographs of spatial objects, which will separately emphasize the following:

1. flat and linear composition

2. rhythm

3. balanced composition

4. dynamic composition

A higher level of abstraction is recommended. Composition of all photographs must be inventive. Assignments 2-4 should fit together

Technical requirements: Assignment 1 must be done through traditional negative/positive process without consequent digital manipulation and format of the positive is to be at least 30x40 cm. The rest of assignments can be black & white or color photographs, or digital prints. Format will be approved by the teacher.

Deadlines: The schedule will be announced during the course. All assignments have to be finished by the end of the summer semester.

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Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer 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
Fri
Thu	místnost TR 304 Učebna KF (Tržiště 20, Praha 1) GRYGAR Š. 09:00–10:35 ODD WEEK (přednášková par. 1)
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	09:00–10:35	GRYGAR Š.	Učebna KF Tržiště 20, Praha 1		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Fotografie EN - bakalář (qualification subject)