Media and Technical Images - JJM449

• Title: Media and Technical Images
• Guaranteed by: Department of Journalism (23-KZ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JJM298, JJM299
• Is incompatible with: JJM298

Annotation

"Media and technical images" is a seminar/workshop introduction to the theory of the photographic image and visual culture. The course is designed for foreign students with a background in visual culture and image: visual studies, journalism, sociology, history of art, etc. During the seminar, students will become familiar with the development of theoretical thinking and understanding of the visuality of the 20th and 21st centuries. The course will emphasize fundamental theoretical texts from the field of visual studies and photography and put them into the context of contemporary photography, art, and media practice. Essential parts of the course are the discussions and reflection above the texts read.

Last update: Jirků Jan, PhDr. Mgr. Bc., Ph.D. (07.01.2020)

Aim of the course

The aim of this course is to raise awareness of the most common forms of visual media, photography, and increase the visual literacy of students. Students will deal with essential texts on the theory of photography accompanied by examples of relevant works from the history of photography. Students should gain deeper understanding of the characteristics of the photographic media, philosophical problems related to it, and deeper their visual literacy.

Last update: Jirků Jan, PhDr. Mgr. Bc., Ph.D. (07.01.2020)

Course completion requirements

Full attendance will be expected (25 points), active participation (15 points), reading of selected texts (25 points), mid-term paper (10 points), final paper (25 points). The successful finishing of the class requires at least 75 points.

Last update: Jirků Jan, PhDr. Mgr. Bc., Ph.D. (07.01.2020)

Literature

Berger, John (1972). Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books.  0-14-021631-6.

BATCHEN, G.  (1999). Burning with Desire. 1st ed. Cambridge Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999.

BATCHEN. G. (2002).  Each wild idea : writing, photography, history. Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press.

Barthes, R. (1981). Camera Lucida New York: Hill and Wang-

Controverses : une histoire juridique et éthique de la photographie / Daniel Girardin ; Christian Pirker. Arles : Actes Sud ; Lausanne : Musée de l'Elysée, 2008

ELKINS, J. (2007). Photography theory / edited by James Elkins New York ; London : Routledge.

ELKINS, J. (2011). What photography is. New York: Routledge, 2011.

EVANS, J., HALL, S. (2002).Visual Culture: the reader. 3. vyd. London: SAGE Publications.

FINEMAN, M. (2012). Faking it: manipulated photography before Photoshop. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

FLUSSER, V. (2011). Into the Universe of Technical Images (Trans. Nancy Ann Roth). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

FONTCUBERTA. J. (2014). 
Pandora's Camera, London: Mack.

GEFTER, P. (2009). Photography after Frank / essays by Philip Gefter New York : Aperture.

KUKKONEN, K. a M. STOCCHETTI. (2011) Images in use: towards the critical analysis of visual communication [online]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co.

MIRZOEFF, N. (2008). An Introduction to Visual Culture.2^nd Ed. London: Routledge.

LISTER, M. (ed.). (2013). The photographic image in digital culture. London ; New York : Routledge.

RITCHIN, F. (2009). After photography. 1st ed. New York: W. W. Norton, c2009.

RITCHIN, F. (2010). Bending the frame: photojournalism, documentary, and the citizen. 1st ed. New York: Aperture.

SCOTT, C. (1999). The spoken image : photography and language. London : Reaktion.

Sontag, S. (1977). On Photography", Penguin, London.

STRAUSS LEVI, D. (2014). Words not spent today. Buy smaller images tomorrow. New York: Aperture.

TAGG, J. (2009). The disciplinary frame : photographic truths and the capture of meaning / John Tagg. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press.

WELLS, L. (2004).  Photography : a critical introduction / Liz Wells New York : Routledge.

ZUROMSKIS, C. (2013). Snapshot photography: The lives of images. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Last update: Bednařík Petr, PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2023)

Teaching methods

Seminar, reading of texts and discussion, visiting exhibitions, practical photographic works.

Last update: Jirků Jan, PhDr. Mgr. Bc., Ph.D. (07.01.2020)

Syllabus

Topics

1st      week: Introduction/Perspective - development of modern visuality

2nd     week: Traditional vs. technical images

3rd     week: New visuality

4th     week: Technical media and temporality

5th       week: Visual violence - war pornography    

6th      week: Semiotics and signs

7th    week:   Mid-term paper

8th    week: Visuality and digital age

9th    week: Reality - theatricality - virtuality

10th   week: Technological determinism

11th   week: Limits of photojournalism - paparazzi

12th   week: New media - trends - Photography

13th   week: Final Discussion

Last update: Jirků Jan, PhDr. Mgr. Bc., Ph.D. (07.01.2020)