Václav Jirásek Workshop

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Subject guarantor:

Václav JIRÁSEK

Name of lecturer(s):

Václav JIRÁSEK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Mode of study:

workshop

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No prequisities.

Recommended optional programme components:

none

Course contents:

The workshop will be in the form of a mini-lecture and linked to discussions on topics with defined „essence“ of photograph. What photography means to each student personally. Why they have selected photography study. What breadth of space photography accepts where it lies in the „gamut.“

The writing/lecture will contain the thesis - Why the student decided to study photography

- What they personally understand as the underpinings of the photography media (What differs it from other media.)

- What breadth of space photography accepts as the characteristic modern discourse in photography and at to what extent it differs from the original perception of photography.

- the mini-lecture will be illustrated by commentary on any photograph, book, photographer or other image resource.

Recommended or required reading:

To be determined by the instructor.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Exercises

Assessment methods and criteria:

Each student will be required to submit a writing (1 standard page), which will also be the basis for a short lecture (to be given.)

Course web page:

Note:

www.vijrasek.com

Václav Jirásek (born: October 3, 1965, in Karvina) is a Czech photography. Studied Applied Graphics at the Middle Industrial Arts School in Brno (1984) and painting at Jiří Načeradsky at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Has studied Photography since 1988. Along with stagings, portraits and landscape photography, he also photographs architecture. He is also a freelance photographer living in Prague. He is co-founder of the Bratrstvo photography group, started in 1989 by the Brno artists Martin Findeis, Václav Jirásek, Petr Krejzek, Roman Muselík a Zdeněk Sokol. They approach photography from the perspective of a painter or that of an amateur. At the end of the 1980s the created an exaggerated historical motif with references to agitating figure sof social realism of the 1950s.

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)
• Photography CZ - Master (qualification subject)
• Photography EN - Bachelor (qualification subject)
• Photography EN - Master (qualification subject)