DU2320 History of Photography in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lukáš Bártl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lukáš Bártl, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course follows-up to the course “History and theory of photography in the 19th century”. It focuses on names, dates movements and tendencies which played a significant part in the period. Moreover, a special attention is paid to major theoretical concepts and interpretative shifts of the period.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- to focus on the main trends in the 20th-century photography;
- identify and characterize main representatives;
- to identify and summarize the main theoretical concepts, interpretative procedures and their representatives;
- to have better competencies to interpret Czech and world photography of the 20th century
Syllabus
  • 1. Kunstfotografie & Photo-Secession/pictorialism 2. Photographic avant-garde 3. Documentary photography in the US and the concept of humanist photography 4. “Conservative photography” of the 20th century 5. Photography in the second half of the 20th century – selected tendencies 6. Digital photography/digital image 7. Subjective documentary, staged photography etc. 8. Photographers versus artists involved in photography in the 1990s. 9. „Current movements“ 10. Benjamin, Barthes, Batchen
Literature
    required literature
  • MARIEN, Mary Warner. Photography : a cultural history. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002, xv, 528. ISBN 0810905590. info
  • A new history of photography. Edited by Michel Frizot. Köln: Könemann, 1998, 775 s. ISBN 3829013280. info
    not specified
  • Karel Císař (ed.), Co je to fotografie?, Praha 2004
  • Antonín Dufek, kapitoly v: V. Lahda (ed.), Dějiny českého výtvarného umění IV, 1890-1938, I-II. Academia, Praha 1998.
  • Geoffrey Batchen, Each Wild Idea: Writing photography history. MIT Press, Cambridge 2001.
  • Antonín Dufek, kapitoly v: R. Švácha – M. Platovská (eds.), Dějiny českého výtvarného umění VI, 1958-2000, I-II. Academia, Praha 2007.
  • Diana Emery Hulick with Joseph Marshall. Photography 1900 to the present. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1998.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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