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Documentary Photography
Kumermann, David ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee) ; Kolář, Viktor (referee)
The text deals with documentary photography as an autonomous practice. The starting axiom for any further deliberations states, that photographic documentary is based on effort to eliminate any possible manipulation.
This manipulation is usually understood as some mechanical intervention in the otherwise automatic process. If, however, the role of a photographer is reflected, we understand the manipulation as an ethical rather than a mechanical problem.
The meaning of photography is always viewed within certain cultural context. A solitary photograph is always polysemic and opened to a manipulative ideological abuse. Photographic documentary works with a collection of photographs, thus providing more complicated but also more exact message.
This is how possible manipulation has to be considered. The authorship must be understood as responsibility for the photographic message. The authorship is not only the fact of taking the pictures but also their selection.
Brief historical excursion establishes an approach to the search for the genealogy of a documentary. It also concerns the ?language? of photography and its ability to carry certain meanings.
Journalistic and documentary photography emerged as a single practice. Photographic documentary as we know it got its autonomy by separating itself from journalism. The place of documentary photography vis-à-vis art and journalism is discussed. .
The last part concerns documentary photography as a stream of various tendencies and approaches. It suggests instruments to reflect this diversity. It also deals with the traditional document in relation to practices that attempt to liberalize the concept of documentary photography and allow in tendencies that are based upon manipulation of the photographic meaning.
Documentary photography is an authentic reflection of the world, based on the author´s responsibility for his message. That is the fundamental principle: Documentary photograph has to be judged not only in aesthetic terms but also by its truthfulness.
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The Occult Photography
Tesař, Jan ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Musilová, Helena (referee)
The title of this diploma work is "The occult photography". Main aim of this essay is to get closer to the phenomenon of spiritualism in photography. The work treats of concrete pictures and their authors. The introduction is followed by chapter "Conception of ?reality? in the occult photoraphy". It contains e.g. information about perception of this topic by various theoreticians. The second chapter "The world´s occult photography" consists to three parts. The first of them - "Materialization of human being´s spirits", considers origins of spiritualism (for example work of William Mumler). The second part - "Levitation of insentient subjects", discusses works of Frederick Hudson and Edouard Isidor Buguet. The third part - "The unidentifiable phenomenons", treats of concrete examples of such phenomenons and about Kirlian´s photography. The last chapter is called "The Czech occult photography". The conclusion is a kind of contemplation about perception of the occult photography in present and in past, about differences between this perception in our country and abroad, and also confrontation with other kinds of visuality.
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Significancy of photography in the context of history of art and in the context of visual studies
Stecker, David ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
Do we currently find ourselves at the divide of qualitative change in creative processes? Are we witnessing the end of the grand era of European culture model, the meaning of which has been immense and, in the course of two thousand and five hundred years, capable of reflecting feelings and fates of European nations with unprecendented plasticity? Are we to proclaim final exhaustion of this era and beginning of new aesthetics of postmodernism? Or shall we consider it a mere episode, an enclave with amusing, creative parameters full of freshness and playfulness which, while not guarding the boundaries of authorship, will after some time prepare a return to the once abandoned traditional model, enriched by these newly discovered traces and expanded to follow further adventures of creative search? I love controversial questions, I love dreaming about uncertain destinies, open endings, surprising solutions. Let's step inside this story, then.
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Nesprávný výklad obrazu středního východu v médiích.
Puc, Jurij ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kolář, Viktor (referee)
The thesis analyzes today?s image interpretation of the Middle East. It would suffice to say that our impression of the Middle East and its current political situation is far from positive. An analysis of the development through history was made, to better understand why do we have such an understanding of the Middle East. Does the adjective Islamic carry a negative image, and if so, why? An analysis of current day media portrayal reveals that the west sometimes lack criticism to objectively judge the images it receives from the Middle East. An overview of different photographic media reveals the potential misinterpretations western infatuation with the image has created.
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Photography and the sacred
Mlynarič, Martin ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Prokůpek, Bohumír (referee)
Photography and sacred phenomenon, the name of my diploma work, treat the affinity of fotographic image and sacred phenomenon which is the guts of religious events. The work notices their bilateral possible intersections. It means how the sacred phenomenon appears in the history of photography in different ways of prehension in works of certain photographs. In the first chapter, there is the sacred phenomenon cleared, its qualities, ways of its recording, ways what it demonstrates through and the character of photographic image which takes into account the function of the image, its place in visual records in the history and sensation of the time and place by the beholder of the photographic image. There is the token and its using in the photography like the point of the possible itersection. Second chapter is written about the sacred phenomenon in the photography presents in photos of certain autors, aproaches which are possible to record the religious content and realizing the medium of photography and its ability to the sacred in the history of photography.
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Slovinské umění po roce 1980 a skupina Irwin
Sadovski, Katarina ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee) ; Klaricová, Kateřina (referee)
Ve své diplomové práci se zabývám slovinským uměním po roce 1980. V první části přibližuji politické pozadí tehdejší doby a jeho vliv na Interrupted Histories, subkultury a slovinské umělce, kteří vzešli z této scény. Ve druhé části hodnotím NSK a NSK state, skupinu Laibach a především kolektiv Irwin, kterému věnuji ve své práci větší pozornost. Zaměřila jsem se na jejich činnost a na jejich hlavní myšlenku, která říká, že žádný totalitní systém se nesmí opakovat. Snaží se přenášet svůj uhel pohledu na veci tím, že oživují původní totalitní systémy. V roce 1980 získala slovinská fotografie svou nezávislost.
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What caused transformation decline in performance of Czech economy?
Dvořák, Tomáš ; Šťastný, Daniel (advisor) ; Potužák, Pavel (referee)
At first I introduce some features and problems of Czechoslovak centrally planned economy. Then I introduce and explore some internal and external factors that influenced performance of Czech economy in period 1990 -- 1992 negatively, partially negatively and partially positively and also some of those factors whose influence doesn't have to be obvious at first sight. Most of the factors I explored can be divided into two groups. The group representing factors with clearly negative influence on performance of Czech economy includes negative content of informal institutions, mutual absence of necessary institutions, regulations, way of thinking and acting, knowledge and experiences, further high public sector's share of GDP formation, adopted privatization strategy of public enterprises, loss of traditional markets and difficult transition to new markets. The group representing factors with partial negative and partial (and prevailing) positive influence includes price deregulation, restrictive income policy, adopted privatization strategy of banks, restrictive fiscal and monetary policy, adopted strategy of Czech economy integration into the world economy. Moreover I explored Czech bankruptcy law, the possibility of acceptance of a foreign democratic country's formal institutions and size of real decline in Czech GDP. I came to conclusion that Czech bankruptcy law couldn't significantly influence performance of Czech economy, further that unacceptance of a foreign democratic country's formal institutions didn't harm performance of Czech economy and in regard to the decline I came to conclusion the real decline wasn't as deep as it was shown by statistics.
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