Photography of Architecture 1

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Subject guarantor:

Martin STECKER

Name of lecturer(s):

Martin STECKER

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Students will, first of all, be acquainted with the basics of this photography discipline and from a historical and linked to contemporary technology development perspective. This semester focuses on the daring technique mastery of these issues. The students will be acquainted with various types. We will also cover the development of architecture in individual construction layers and examples of those constructions in the Czech Republic and Europe. This instruction will serve as theory instruction for exercises in the Summer semester.

Mode of study:

Each class will have three parts: a short lecture, discussion on the lecture topic or a topic related to architecture and photography and consultations on photography assignments. Aside from this instruction, there will also be an assembly linked to the photography of modern architecture in Hradec Kralove and one module will be assigned to each student of the course as an elective requirement (upon acquisition of the appropriate credits). The module topics will be assigned during the semester.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No knowledge requirements.

Recommended optional programme components:

none

Course contents:

At the introductory course in Beroun the students will independently implement exercise shots using Sinar cameras. Required is one shot of an exterior of a selected building in Prague and one shot of an interior stairway in the school building in Beroun. The result will be two photographs using a Sinar camera in a 6x9 negative format and subsequent enlargement to 30x40cm on a barite underlay.

Assessed is: For the exterior, an appropriate selection of lighting for the characteristic of the building and excellent development of the shot including precise balance of perpendicular lines. In the interior the quality of the developed negaive which allows good management of light and shadow in an interior is assessed.

Recommended or required reading:

Literature (selection):

Uher, Vladimír: Dialog tvarů, Odeon

Dragoun, Zdeněk: Praha 885-1310. Kapitoly o románské a ranně gotické architektuře, Libri, Praha

Kuča, Karel: Atlas památek, Česká republika, díl I a II., Baset, Praha 2002

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

lesson

Assessment methods and criteria:

Students will be graded only if they attend 70% of classes and participate in group instructional excursions.

Course web page:

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)