Seminar on the Final Bachelor Thesis 2

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Subject guarantor

Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA, Michal ŠIMŮNEK

Name of lecturer(s)

Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA, Michal ŠIMŮNEK

Contents

in the seminar, the student will:

(1) finish the thesis under the guidance of the supervisor - the finished thesis must fulfil all formal criteria, have at least 20 pages (36,000 characters), and be submitted by 21 April 2023 in print and electronically through the information system KOS

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

Learning outcomes

completion of the thesis, preparation for state exams

Prerequisites and other requirements

Seminar on the Final Bachelor Thesis 1

Literature

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.

Evaluation methods and criteria

regular attendance at the seminars, elaboration of the thesis

Schedule for winter semester 2023/2024:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2023/2024:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Photography EN - Bachelor-1920 (Required subjects)