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Susan Hiller
Leinweberová, Adéla ; SILVERIO, Robert (advisor) ; GRYGAR, Štěpán (referee)
FAMU Department of Photography Final masters thesis reflecting life and work of photographer and famous artist Susan Hiller (*1940), american-british author, in context of her experiences and life period. This work includes main works, an interview with author's close friend and colleague Simon Read. As well with an analysis of Hiller's last project "Gedanken sind frei" (Thoughts are free) presented in dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, Germany. To this Master thesis is attached audiovisual documentation of Susan Hiller's conceptual project from Kassel which was made directly for purposes of this text.
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The Night in the Czech Fine Arts from the 19th to the 21st century
Zmudová, Žaneta ; MĚŘIČKA, Jan (advisor) ; GRYGAR, Štěpán (referee)
In my thesis I focused on the topic of the night in the Czech fine arts from the 19th to the 21st century. The aim of my work is not conduct a survey of the issues as a whole, it does not make efforts to be a historical outline, but the goal is to present a different conception of the night in the works of some selected artists. This text is concentrating on the works of artists who design the night in the landscape and urban sceneries. In every night scene we can see the light, either natural or artificial, which is the bearer of artist´s imaginings.
The work goes from the introduction of the light and darkness symbolism throughout the era of the human history and physical essence of the light to the presentations of individual artists who reflect the night with natural kinds of light or the artificial ones.
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Poválečná japonská fotografie
Tryputen, Stanislav ; SILVERIO, Robert (advisor) ; GRYGAR, Štěpán (referee)
Japonská fotografie po druhé světové válce prošla radikální proměnou od fotorealistického přístupu, zaměřeného na zkoumání národní identity země, k více subjektivnímu přístupu nové generace fotografů zasažených hrůzami války. Tito autoři vyvinuli nový vizuální jazyk a témata jejich tvorby měla velmi osobní povahu. Cílem této práce je analyzovat hlavní vlivy tohoto vývoje v historickém a sociálním kontextu poválečného Japonska.
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Space and architecture photographers
Uhlíková, Jarmila ; Grygar, Štěpán (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
The theses discuss the issue of photographing a specific place which is closely related to the spaces of all kinds and to architecture. It is limited to the so called ?no name architecture? that does not have a known author ? mainly common houses and utility buildings but also specific places in the countryside or in a city such as gardens or parking lots. The emphasis is on the connection between the space and its photographic representation. It is demonstrated in the work of particular authors. It explores the questions of making a photographic picture of a space, author´s choice and their influence on the result as well as the impression the particular photographs leave in their viewers. The main idea of this paper is to offer an overview of basic approaches to photographing places that have been used since the 60s of 20th century till present.
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Internet Photogalleries
Macháček, Petr ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šimlová, Štěpánka (referee) ; Grygar, Štěpán (referee)
13 czech online photogalleries are descried in the thesis. Their users upload their own photos and they rate and discuss it in the galleries. The galleries are compared and contrasted according to their publishers, functions and system of rating and posting of comments. The best photographies in each galleries are described and the author tries to find some general features of them. The users? research focused on the users? attitudes toward the galleries and the age of them. The author uploaded his photos in all the galleries and got comments and ratings in which way he wanted to demonstrate, what kind of feedback the users can get. Acquisition of a lot of unique oppinions of amateur photographers is the biggest asset of this work.
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La jetee - a photo roman
Loucaides, Andreas ; Silverio, Robert (advisor) ; Grygar, Štěpán (referee)
La jetee 1962 is a film made by Chris Marker - also called photo roman - composed almost entirely by black and white Photographs. The effort would be to analyze and discuss this phenomenon, to explore the way in which the still photography interacts within different contexts than the pure photographic.
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Early Period Of Conceptual Art In The USA In 1960s
Leinweberová, Adéla ; Silverio, Robert (advisor) ; Grygar, Štěpán (referee)
The topic of this bachelor?s thesis is the early period of conceptualism in the 1960s. In the form of a personal travel diary there is and effort to discover the way to perception and understanding of the conceptual art. The traces of conceptualism have been present in art until today. As well as a stream that cannot be specified by an exact definition, even from its early period. The selected topic is followed through Sol LeWitt?s essay ?Sentences on Conceptual art?. ?Sentences? are reviewed and compared to other contemporary theoretical works, followed by author?s opinion reflection. The whole thesis is written on the background of a journey to the retrospective exhibition of Sol LeWitt in Zurich.
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Self-Portrait and its Forms in Works of Famous Photographers and in Works of Younger Generation in the Czech and Slovak Republic
Bričová, Katarína ; Grygar, Štěpán (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
My graduation thesis shows reflections on the phenomenon of the self ? portrait. I am particularly
interested in the answer to the question why most artists have been attracted by the self ? portrait.
At the beginning of my thesis I follow examples of the self ? portraiture in the history of Art. First part refers to the development of the self ? portrait in photography. Then I show how the self ? portrait was influenced from Ancient Egypt to Renaissance and Impressionism and how it is influenced in the present times. The self ? portrait has appeared in photography from the very beginning. Its different aspects are shown in photographic self ? portraits of famous photographers. In next chapter I focus on different features of this phenomenon in works of contemporary photographers such as Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Orlan, Jeff Koons, Gilbert and George and others. The sixth chapter is devoted to a seeking and exploring generation of younger artists from the Czech and Slovak Republics. They are either recent graduates in Art or students of Art at universities. I interview them in attempt to discover a source of inspiration for their photographic self ? portraits and to find out how it started, what goals they wanted to attain by self ? presentation and how they benefit from it. In the last chapter I explain the importance of self ? portrait in my life. Is it a form of art therapy or a form of narcissism? Are intimate confessions of artists really important in the present times?
In conclusion I reflect on the answers from the interviews with some contemporary photographers
and sum up my discoveries from them.
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