Contemporary Photography

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Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Introducing students to the tendencies in art and documentary photography of the last two decades.

Mode of study:

přednášky a vložené studentské tematické

prezentace/semináře

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Course contents:

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.

Recommended or required reading:

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)

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Assessment methods and criteria:

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.

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The subject is a part of the following study plans:

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