Course: Special Photo Technologies II

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Course title Special Photo Technologies II
Course code KFO/812
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Frequency of the course Each academic year
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Myslivec Jáchym, MgA.
  • Kolečková Zdena, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
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. Introduction to Van Dyke process. 2. Preparing materials for Van Dyke process. 3. Prints created by means of Van Dyke process. 4. Principles of work with photographic emulsion. 5. Application of photographic emulsion. 6. Exposition and processing material with applied photographic emulsion. 7. Introduction to gum bichromate process 8. Preparing materials for gum bichromate. 9. Preparing materials before sensitization. 10. Prints created by means of gum bichromate. 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.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
At least three photographs in one chosen printing technique
Recommended literature
  • Brennen, B. Picturing the Past (Media, History & Photography).. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1999.
  • Dyer, R. The Matter of Images (Essays on Representation).. Routledge, London & New York, 2002.
  • Flusser, V. Za filosofií fotografie. Praha, 1994.
  • Hunter, F.; Biver, S.; Fuqua, P. Fotografie a světlo. Zoner Press, Brno, 2007.
  • Lester, P. M. Images that Injure (Pictorial Sterotypes in the Media). Praeger, Westport, London, 1996.
  • Lowell, R. P. Pictures and Words. Thomson, Delmar Learning, Canada, 2002.
  • Schapiro, Meyer. Words, Script and Pictures (Semiotics of Visual Language). George Braziller, New York, 1996.
  • Stephens, M. The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1998.
  • van Leeuwen, Theo; Jewitt, Carey. Handbook of Visual Analysis. Sage Publications, London, 2001.
  • Wells, L. Photography: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, London and New York, 2000.


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