Seminar on History and Theory of Photography 2
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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307ESHTP2 | ZK | 3 | 2/Z | English | summer |
- Subject guarantor:
- Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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This seminar is aimed at a deep analysis of the theory of photography. Students are required to read and critique theoretical literature on photography (and culture in general). The course connects photography with semiotics and intercultural disciplines.
- Mode of study:
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Students shall be asked to prepare papers on various texts (see lit.) and also on various exhibitions (according to the given possibilities). They will present them in front of the other students and thus subdue these essays to their critical discussion.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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Completion of Theory of Photography 1
- Course contents:
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Assignments:
Students shall be asked to prepare papers on various texts (see lit.) and also on various exhibitions (according to the given possibilities). They will present them in front of the other students and thus subdue these essays to their critical discussion.
Name of the Lecturer: Robert Silverio PhD.
Contact: 267 711 836, silverio@volny.cz
- Recommended or required reading:
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Literature:
Adorno Theodor: The Culture Industry, Routledge, London 2001
Barthes Roland: Camera Lucida, any edition
Barthes Roland: Image, Music Text, Hill and Wang, NY 1978
Bourdieu Pierre: Photography: A Middle-brow Art, Stanford University Press, Stanford 1990
Burgin Victor (ed.): Thinking Photography, MacMillan Press, London 1982
Burgin Victor: In/Different Spaces, University of California Press Berkley and Los Angeles 1996
Flusser Vilém: Towards a Philosophy of Photography, European Photography, Göttingen 1984
McLuhan Marshal: Understanding Media, McGraw-Hill, New York 1965
Sontag Susan: On Photography, any edition after 1977
Wells, Liz (ed.) The Photography Reader, Routledge, London 2003
- Assessment methods and criteria:
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Grading:
Participation in discussions: 45%
Presentation of essays in front of other students: 45%
Participation in course 10% (however not less than 60%)
- Course web page:
- Note:
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none
- Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:
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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 Wed Thu Fri Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel Mon 14:50–16:25 Josef LEDVINA Učebna KF 112
Lažanský palácpřednášková par. 1 - The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Photography EN - Bachelor (qualification subject)