Public Life of Photographs

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Subject guarantor:

Štěpánka ŠIMLOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Štěpánka ŠIMLOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of the creative photography studio is to support the individual creative abilities of the students as much as possible in conceptual work. This presumes work in the context of modern art bez limitating factors.

Mode of study:

Analyses of exercises, displaying work related to topics, independent creative work.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

General knowledge of the history of the creative arts and photography

General knowledge of the history of modern visual art.

Analytical skills

Creativity

Course contents:

1. STUDIO OF STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY

Supervised by: Mgr. Rudo Prekop

Contact: 737 609 562, rudoprekop@hotmail.com

The Studio includes lectures, seminars, consultations of final exhibition, bachelor's, and master's studies.

Assignments: (assignments 4P1, 5P1)

Part of the Studio is one mandatory assignment for:

3rd year students: FIGURE - ENVIRONMENT - PROPS, collection of 8 and more photos

4th year students: MAN - publication or its mutation, minimum 15 photos.

5th year students: PROBLEM - arbitrary form of execution.

Time schedule: Prior to the beginning of the photographic work, student explains his or her intentions to the instructor and it is mutually agreed upon, then implements the assignment.

Deadline for submission: by the end of the summer semester - second half of May.

Every year, three figures in photography, and/or also graphic design, are invited as lecturers to the Studio, selected by the instructor. These workshops are either one or two semesters long and take place according to the time schedule specified by the given lecturer. The purpose of this arrangement is the time-limited exposure of the students to a wide spectrum of individual figures, who provide all the participating students with their creative and real-life experiences, their opinions, attitudes, and spirit.

2. STUDIO OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Lecturer: prof. Viktor Kolář

Contact: viktor@viktorkolar.com, phone: 596 126 536

List of assignments: /select one from the three/

Theme 1: „His/her/their“ story /documentary project/

A visual narrative about looking for one's path, a road we usually call the „road of life.“ Discovering such a road and then walking it seems to be more important than anything else. Before we step on such a road we face various problems such as: drugs culture, participation in extreme political movements, religious sects, along with personal failure, mental disorders, unemployment, abuse in childhood, homelessness, making such a search more problematic. Each person in my neighbourhood can tell a different story?

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or color images of cca 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2013

Theme 2: ?Elderly people? /documentary project/

It can be considered as subject of great importance.The number of elderly people is growing, at the same time they feel cut off from the real world around them?many of them stand up to become active /senior age universities etc./We see people who suffer from all kind of dementia/Alzheimer disease!/ and still they try to retain dissent life.There are people around them who are of great help. Trace down how old people around you live and make strong series of photographs

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or colour pictures 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2013

Theme 3: „Consumerism as a lifestyle“ /documentary project/

The Western model of consumerism may be blamed as responsible for the defeat of communist ideology and the further fall of communism in Czech Republic. The mode of consuming following may be a leading factor in shaping people?s lifes today. Purchasing products, using many levels of services in huge shopping centres as Tesco, Kaufland, Ikea, etc.are leading them to spend more time there. For some people consumption is becoming an obsession with all side effects. It becomes an addiction and must be medically treated. People buy things they do not need, spend money they did not earn. They also try to buy new identities on the market. Record on your film all possible manifestations of such a lifestyle from your point of view.

The creative outcome: 15-20 bw or color images cca 24x30cm

Deadline: June 2013

3. STUDIO OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Lecturer: Štěpán Grygar

Contact: 732 661 938, grygar@famu.cz

Course Description:

I stress the importance of a critical distance from one's own work that results in its classification within a wider context. The Studio consists of theoretical seminars, consultations of final exhibition, bachelor's, and master's studies.

Assignment: (4P1, 5P1)

Description: This mandatory assignment is a practical and students have to submit at least eight photographs. Emphasis is put on the ability to come up with an innovative solution to the given assignment. Conceptual work is recommended. A written explanation must be handed in prior to starting the assignment.

Assignment: To create a series of at least eight photographs as an individual interpretation of a specific topic (not mere illustration). The topic will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Time schedule: WS: Brief, written explanation by the end of November. The series must be a work in progress by the end of the winter semester.

SS: The final output (eight photographs) has to be submitted by the end of the summer semester.

5. Studio ŠTĚPÁNKA ŠIMLOVÁ

The studio instruction is intended, particularlz for students who wish to get involved with th experimental concept of photography or using this medium, to broaden it into an installation venturing into the moving image, video or animation. Student works on their own project which is discussed prior and detailed. An emphasis is placed primarily on the long-term development of the project, which is required to have great expressive intentions reflecting its context, a search for the most appropriate form of expression, show production skills and be implemented in an exhibition space. The time frame for developing the project is one academic year, that is, two semester. Aside from the main project, students comple short-term assignments which arise from current topics in contemporary cultural and societal events.

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

Assessment methods and criteria:

class, exercises, lectures

Course web page:

Note:

none

Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Photography CZ - Bachelor (qualification subject)