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Moment and Autorship in Photography
Šarkadyová, Lucie ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Váša, Ondřej (referee) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
Most of the work on photography is about image and trying to understand photography as an image. Contrary to this approach, this paper deals with the experience of the photographer at the time of taking the picture, and also the influence of photography, understood as a medium, on our perception. The main topic is the photography of movement, where we can best demonstrate how photography changes both our perception and our understanding of (objective) reality. The beginning of the work is devoted to one of the greatest Czech photographers, Josef Sudek, who describes the method of his work. Sudek's definition of the moment involved in taking the picture is "when everything fits together"; the impossibility of returning to the same moment is a central feature of photography as presented in this work. Consequently, the basis for the thesis is that (1) photography and camera change the way we perceive, and that (2) photography is an actualization of the possibility of how we see what we see. The actualization of the possibility is discussed mainly in the context of Barbara Probst, whose work "Exposures" fundamentally enters the history of photography, and who - once again - does not put emphasis on the image but rather on the photographer as the creator of the image.
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The organic and organized
Šarkadyová, Lucie ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Kouba, Petr (referee)
Anotation: The diploma thesis Organic and Organized is divided into two parts. The first part is concerned with the relationship between the singular and the general, possibilities of the knowing the singular and its delineation considering the general - with a special attention being paid to medical discourse. A question will be raised whether we can get to know and describe the organic, which is also necessarily singular, which we can't be approached using general rules and laws. Speaking in even more general terms, we should consider the following: if we accept the singularity of the living organism, we should ask what it means for the science which tries to get to know it. The second task of this thesis is to answer (or at least to attempt to answer) the question, what is it that makes the organism singular and henceforth what is the important factor in the process of getting to know this singular. The thesis relies on a detailed reading of those French philosophers (George Canguilhem, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Claude Bernard) who dedicate their philosophical work to an analysis of the medical science and at the same time are doctors.
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On the normal and the abnormal
Šarkadyová, Lucie ; Kouba, Petr (advisor) ; Petříček, Miroslav (referee)
This paper represents an attempt to examine the possibility of inserting certain positive meanings into the concept of normality without at the same time perceiving it normatively. In this attempt it is vital to cast away our understanding of the rules of normativity and conception of normality as a process of fulfilling the rules of a society and understand the norm in relation to an individual. This individualistic understanding enables us to approach normality in its specific way. There are no prescribed determining rules: all that is left is our own decision and personal norm. These are going to form a dynamic order that is related to aa actual situation. Such order does not necessarily have to be universal one since it is determined and in certain manner shaped by our own existence.
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