Project 1

Subject guarantor:

Jaroslav BÁRTA

Name of lecturer(s):

Jaroslav BÁRTA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course, focused on current social topics, does not consider the study year.

Mode of study:

The project is focused on capturing the fate and change of view of the community influenced by the political situation after 1945. Focus will be on investigating historical relationships using period documents, old photographs and maps. The project will be exhibited in the Synagogue in Boskovice. Students of all study-years may participate in the project. A requirement is a strong interest in the topic and desire to customize the overal concept using one's photography.

During the classes is an introduction to the given issues. Part of the class will be a group trip around the selected region, which will serves as ain introduction to the issues and for discussions over photographic development.

Subsequently, the project will be completed in individual student trips to places selected upon agreeement with the instructor.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No requirements.

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Course description:

Project is focused on the investigation of impressions of the past in today's landscape and the fate and appearance of communities destroyed or which have disappeared after 1945 through the influence of the evacuation of the German population, through artificial settling, creation of a border zone (Šumava, Novohradsko), military zones (Slavkovsky Les region) or for mining activity (Mostecko, Chomutovsko). The selection of community will be done in order to record various negative interventions of man from the devastation of the hitorical character of the community through demolition or unsuitable construction to communities in extinction, in which some remains in nature are minimally noticable. Contemporary photography will be compared to period maps and old photos.

Project is based on a common learning of this history, searching for its impressions in the landscape. Photographing locations will be based on a thorough acquaintance with the location and landscape. Therefore, prior to photographing will be a journey around the landscape and a stay in it. In this manner and working with archive material, we will attempt to penetrate the understanding of the location and its fate. Photos will be one of the documentation manners of the contemporary situation.

As and introductio nto issues will be an excursion to the Novohradsky mountain region, where, after the Second World War, many settlements became extinct and the entire region changed where occurred the expulsion of the original, predominantly, German population, unsuccessfull resettling and finally the creation of a border zone, for which many settlements were finally destroyed. In those communities, most of those regions have small traces (Terčí Hut', Stříbrné Hutě, Janovy Hutě, Lukov, Jiřice, Zlata Ktiš, Horní and Dolní Příbraní and others). Some communities were devastated and only parts remain which eloquently bear witness to their fate, which they experienced (Pohoří na Šumavě, Cetviny and others).

Project will be completed with a exhibition in Boskovice in July 2011. In the final phase questions on the selection of photos, appropriate exhibition adjustment and overall presentation will be dealt with together.

Tasks:

Selection of location and investigation of period literature and photographic documentation.

Photos from selected locations arranged according to concept which will be defined upon collection of materials and location research.

During the work, examples in the form of contact sheets or preview prints.

Submitted: A number of photos and manner of execution will correspond to the topic and selected photographic concept. Selection will take place in group consultations based on the first introduction to the locations.

Recommended or required reading:

kolektiv; Zmizelé Sudety, Nakladatelství Českého lesa, Domažlice 2004

kolektiv; Novohradské hory - příroda, historie, život, Baset, Praha 2006

Pithart, P., Příhoda, P. (ed): Čítanka odsunutých dějin, Praha 1998

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Grading: Credit (Winter semester) for photograph development and samples.

Exam (Summer semester). grading based on completing individual assignments and submitting selected photographs. A requirement for grading is required attendance at 60% of lectures, attendance at scheduled compulsory group consultations and submission of agreed photographs in digital form in a defined format.

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Note:

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 CZ - bakalář (optional subject)