Studio of Documentary Photography 6

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Subject guarantor:

Karel CUDLÍN

Name of lecturer(s):

Karel CUDLÍN

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Form and expressive tools are very broad: From a traditional concept of a documentary, in part bound to the social or societally corresponding topics, through to documentary changes and shifts in society, lifestyle, ecology, topography of a location to the subjective expression of relations to the immediate surroundings or the world in general and one's feelings and experience.

Mode of study:

Analýza konkrétních cvičení, promítání prací, jež mají souvislost s tématem,

samostatná tvůrčí práce

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

General knowledge of visual art and photography

General knowledge of modern visual arts theory

Analytical abilities

Creativity

Recommended optional programme components:

none

Course contents:

Documentary photography deals with predominantly the depicting of human stories, man as an individual and the arranging of its behaviour to a wider social context. Emphasis is placed on the creation of a greater and more expansive whole: and a long-term project. Those capturing man and his behaviour in its breadth have the goal to penetrate the surface of the event and object.

Forms and expression tools are very broad: From the traditional concept of the documentary, often bound with a social or societal topic, through documentation of changes and shifts in society, lifestyle, ecology, topography of individual locations to subjective expression of the relationship of the immediate surroundings or the world in general and one feelings and experience.

Not only are communication, vision, internal truth, personal committment, empathy and ability to establish communication and student responsibility, but also the creative process and investigating ones own manner of expression.A photography documentary can be nearly everything and as well nothing. It depends on who is looking at it. It may be the pretext or the medium by which something happens, or comes back to life. Important is the courage to take on the project in which the result cannot be foreseen.

The most important task in the studio, in order to recognize and understand who is doing what and what they are good at and how we may help them. The assignments are individually agreed upon based on consultations and various exercises.

We will cover the particulars of photography create various strategies for a documentary. The very successful and those less so, who work in photography creatively and freely are invited to the studio.

Recommended or required reading:

Alberro, Alexander - Norvell, Patricia (ed.): Recording Conceptual Art, Berkeley,

Los Angeles a London: University of California Press, 2001

Alberro, Alexander, Sabeth Buchmann: Art After ConceptualArt, MIT Press,

Cambridge and London, 2006

Fried Michael: Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, Yale University

Press, New Haven 2008

Bourriaud, Nicolas: Postprodukce, Praha: Tranzit, 2004

Bourriaud, Nicolas: Relational Aesthetics, Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2002

Cotton Charlotte: The Photography as Contemporary Art, London, Thames

Hudson, 2004

Císař, Karel (ed): Co je to fotografie? Herrmann a synové, Praha 2004

Foster, Hal (ed): Postmodern Culture, London: Pluto Press, 1990

Foster, Hal; Krauss, Rosalind; Bois, Yves-Alain; Buchloh, Benjamin H.D.: Art

since 1900, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004

Michel Frizot: Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie, Larousse-Bordas, Paris,

1996

Grygar Štěpán, Konceptuální umění a fotografie, Praha, AMU, 2004

Petříček Miroslav: Myšlení obrazem, Herrmann a synové, Praha 2009

Silverio, Robert: Postmoderní fotografie, Praha: AMU, 2007

Liz Wells. The Photography Reader, Routledge, London, 2003

Wall, Jeff: Selected Essays and Interviews, New York: The Museum of Modern

Art, 2007

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

none

Assessment methods and criteria:

Students may be graded based on attendance 70% and participation in group excursions. Each exercise will be graded according to the criteria given.

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Note:

none

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Photography CZ - Bachelor (qualification subject)