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Lecturer(s)
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Vartecká Anna, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Reportage and documentary photography under the immediate influence of the World War II. Male and female war correspondents, photo agencies 2. Liberation and Czech photographers. 3. Post-war humanism in photography, Magnum Photos and its members, summary of The Family of Man exhibition. 4. New York school of photography in confrontation with humanistic documentary. 5. Subjective and artistic expressions in photography in the post-war period in Europe and the USA, the situation in defeated Germany after 1945, and the Fotoform Group, the Aperture magazine and the phenomenon of subculture in the USA. 6. Overlaps of fine-art and staged photography in the 1950s in our country, a new position of photography in the context of topical art events. 7. Advertising and fashion photography in our country and abroad in the first half of the 20th century. Interwar Czech and Slovak advertising photography. Post-war high class portrait in the world. 8. Female body as both a medium and a subject of an advertising message, interconnection of female body with the social and media construction of gender; power dimension of the view. 9. Czechoslovak new wave in film and female film production in the context of the avant-garde, Věra Chytilová and Ester Krumbachová. 10. Changes in perception of the position of photography since the 1960s, basic division of conceptual approaches. 11. Presentation and analysis of selected films and theoretical sources.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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A cycle of lectures focused on history of European and American photography in the first half of the 20th century with selected thematic overlaps into the history of cinema, and related film and visual theories. Special emphasis will be placed on a critical reflection of aspects of image manipulation in the service of totalitarian ideologies. The subject of this cycle is selected personalities and the movement of war and humanistic documentaries and groundbreaking exhibition projects that have significantly contributed to the emancipation of photography as a modern visual, but also artistic medium. A separate unit consists of lectures focused on constitution of advertising and fashion photography and post-war fine-art and subjective photography.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
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Prerequisites
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Successful completion of the previous study
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Attendance
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Recommended literature
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ADAMOVE, Ján. Bože môj, čo sú to za ľudia. Poznámky (nielen) k americkej filmovej avantgarde. FVU AU Banská Bystrica, 2018.
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ANDĚL, Jaroslav. Česká fotografie 1840-1950, Příběh moderního média. KANT, Praha, 2004.
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CÍSAŘ, K. Co je to fotografie?. Herrmann a synové, 2004. ISBN 80-239-5169-6.
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POSPĚCH, Tomáš. Myslet fotografii. Česká fotografie 1938-2000. PositiF a Dost, Praha, 2014.
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Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abaville Press, New York, 1989.
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VANČÁT, Pavel. Alexandr Hackenschmied: Od fotografie k filmu. Fotograf v zahradě & Institut Francais de Prague, Praha, 2004.
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