Seminar on the Final Bachelor Thesis 2

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Subject guarantor

Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA, Tereza STEJSKALOVÁ, Michal ŠIMŮNEK

Name of lecturer(s)

Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA, Tereza STEJSKALOVÁ, Michal ŠIMŮNEK

Learning outcomes of the course unit

completion of the thesis, preparation for state exams

Mode of study

lecture/seminar/individual consultation

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Seminar on the Final Bachelor Thesis 1

Course contents

in the seminar, the student will:

(1) finish the thesis under the guidance of his or her supervisor - the finished thesis must fulfil all formal criteria, have at least 20 pages (36,000 characters), and be submitted by 30 April 2021 through the information system

(2) participate in a preparatory seminar for the final state exam in history and theory of photography

Recommended or required reading

recommended literature for the thesis is based on its particular theme

recommended literature for final state exams from theory and history of photography:

Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. Reflections on Photography.New York: Hill & Wang, 1980.

Barthes, Roland. Image, Music, Text. London: Fontana Press, 1977, pp. 15–51.

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Noonday Press, 1972.

Batchen, Geoffrey. Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph. DelMonico Books – Prestel, 2016.

Batchen, Geoffrey. Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2001.

Batchen, Geoffrey. Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997.

Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media. Cambridge – London: Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 19–165, 271–314.

Durden, Mark (ed.). Fifty Key Writers on Photography. London: Routledge, 2013.

Edwards, Steve. Photography: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Flusser, Vilém. Towards a Philosophy of Photography. London: Reaktion Books, 2000.

Flusser, Vilém. Into the Universe of Technical Images. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Foster, Hal et al., Art Since 1900. Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism.London: Thames & Hudson, 2011.

Freund, Gisèle. Photography & Society. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980.

Frizot, Michel a kol. A New History of Photography. Köln: Könemann, 1998.

Krauss, Rosalind. “A Voyage on the North Sea.” Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition. Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Krauss, Rosalind. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge – London: The MIT Press, 1986.

Manovich, Lev. Language of New Media. Cambridge – London: The MIT Press, 2001.

Manovich, Lev. Instagram and Contemporary Image. http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/instagram-and-contemporary-image

Mitchell, W. J. T. Picture Theory. University of Chicago Press 2016.

Rosler, Martha. Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975–2001. Cambridge – London: The MIT Press, 2004.

Sekula, Allan. Photography Against the Grain. Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1984.

Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2003.

Sontag, Susan. On Photography. London: Penguin Books, 1977.

Sturken, Marita – Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking. An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009.

Trachtenberg, Alan. Classic Essays on Photography. New Haven, Conn.: Leete’s Island Books, 1980.

Warren, Lynne (ed.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. Vol. 1+2. New York – London: Routledge, 2006.

Assessment methods and criteria

to receive credits for the course, you must:

• submit the final text (min. 20 pages) of the thesis by 30 April 2021
• participate in all seminars and in regular consultations with the supervisor

Note

none

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The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Photography EN - Bachelor-1920 (required subject)