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Lecturer(s)
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Kolečková Zdena, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Shift from a "wet" to a "dry" photographic process; global expansion of the photographic medium; industrialization of photo-chemical process, development of instrumentation. 2. Democratization of photography - development of instrumentation for the wider masses; KODAK - low-cost photography delivered to the house; advertising and marketing; snapshot photography. 3. Photography and positivism - a photograph as a tool of scientific research (micro and macro photography, astrophotography, medical photography, police photography) and the pseudo-scientific search for "obvious evidence" (craniometry, occultism). 4. Photography and art I - adaptability of photographic sketch, search for connections between the invention of photography and the onset of modern painting, emancipation of photography as an artwork; generation of British pictorialists. 5. Photography and art II - internationalization of the scene at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; Art Nouveau pictorialism and direct photography. 6. Changing face of world's major cities; a photographic document capturing irreversible changes of important settlements, new urban plans, ongoing industrialization of landscape and emergence of significant technical buildings. 7. Photo-mechanical processes and origin of photojournalism. 8. Efforts to conquer the world - expeditionary and tourist photography; photography and cartography. 9. The growing gap: determination to change the world for the better - social documentary vs. Belle Époque - photography as an instrument of a new lifestyle of the upper social classes. 10. Principle of persistence of vision, optical illusions, related toys and mechanical devices; chronophotography, constitution of cinematography. 11. Beginnings of cinematography - comparing development of European and American cinematography in the first two decades of the 20th century; characteristics of selected national scenes. Presentation and analysis of selected films.
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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 series of lectures in which students get acquainted with physical and chemical, as well as historical, social and economic pre-requisites of photography development, and with constitution of cinematography. The subject matter of this cycle is the expansion of photographic medium in the second third of the 19th century, as well as the specifics of photography in the period of early modernism 1880-1918. A separate unit is created by lectures focused on establishment of cinematography, and on the early stage of silent film, both in European and American filmography.
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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BORDWELL, David - THOMPSONOVÁ, Kristin. Dějiny filmu. AMU Praha, 2014.
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KOLEČKOVÁ, Zdena. La Chambre noire. FUD UJEP Ústí nad Labem, 2005.
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KOUTSKÝ, Karel; Moucha, Josef. Alfred Stieglitz. Město za řekou. Fotorenesance, 2018.
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Marien, Mary Warner. Photography, Laurence King Publishing. London, 2002.
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PŘIKRYLOVÁ, Miroslava. Fotografický ateliér H. Eckert v Praze. Obrazový katalog fotografií uložených v Archivu. Scriptorium, 2017.
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Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abaville Press, New York, 1989.
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Scheufler, P. Teze k dějinám fotografie do roku 1914. Praha, FAMU, 2000.
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Scheufler, Pavel. Galerie c. k. fotografů. Grada Publishing, Praha, 2001.
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