The course focuses not only on the technical aspects of the technologies under discussion, but is also oriented towards understanding their application in the developmental trends of photography and visual art (e.g. in the period of pictorialism) as well as their confrontation or interconnection with contemporary processes and possibilities of digital technologies. The conception of the subject assumes that the master's degree students have vocational and manual skills, as well as theoretical knowledge on the level of a bachelor's degree graduate, and therefore focuses in particular on extending specific skills necessarily essential both in the challenging professional practice, and in free author's creation. Tuition in both semesters is based on combination of theoretical introductions and following practical experiments illuminating individual technologies being examined and model creative procedures respectively. Seminar works in this subject are oriented toward practical verification of acquired knowledge and their inclusion in the student's range of practical skills. 1. Getting acquainted with the darkroom. 2. Principles of the black and white positive process. 3. Photogram. 4. Pinhole camera - creating a camera. 5. Taking photos with a pinhole camera. 6. Processing material from a pinhole camera. 7. Introduction to alternative historical processes. 8. Technological basis when working with alternative photographic processes. 9. Introduction to cyanotype. 10. Preparing materials for cyanotype. 11. Prints created by means of cyanotype. 12. Continuing creation of cyanotype prints. 13. Summary and presentation of realized collections.
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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Brennen, B. Picturing the Past (Media, History & Photography).. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1999.
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Dyer, R. The Matter of Images (Essays on Representation).. Routledge, London & New York, 2002.
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Lester, P. M. Images that Injure (Pictorial Sterotypes in the Media). Praeger, Westport, London, 1996.
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Lowell, R. P. Pictures and Words. Thomson, Delmar Learning, Canada, 2002.
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Schapiro, M. Script and Pictures (Semiotics of Visual Language).. George Braziller, New York, 1996.
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Stephens, M. The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1998.
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Van Leeuwen, T.; Jewitt, C. Handbook of Visual Analysis. Sage Publications, London, 2001.
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Wells, L. Photography: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, London and New York, 2000.
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