Contemporary Photography

Subject guarantor:

Robert SILVERIO

Name of lecturer(s):

Robert SILVERIO

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

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

Mode of study:

Lectures and student presented topics/classes

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

Žádné další nepovinné vzdělávací složky.

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)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

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 a written test exam takes place.

Course web page:

Note:

This course is required and is for 1st and 2nd year bachelor study students. It is taught once every two years. It is registered for the Winter semester 2013.

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

	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 112 Učebna KF (Lažanský palác) SILVERIO R. 11:30–13:05 (přednášková par. 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	11:30–13:05	SILVERIO R.	Učebna KF Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animation - Master (optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Master (optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Animation - Master (optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Master (optional subject)
• Film Directing - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Film Directing - Master (optional subject)
• Cinematography - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Cinematography - Master (optional subject)
• Production - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Production - Master (optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Editing - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Editing - Master (optional subject)
• Sound Design - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Sound Design - Master (optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Bachelor (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Master (optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Master (optional subject)
• Restoring of Photogrphy (optional subject)