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Position of Czech Documentary Photography During the Normalization Era
Folk, Čeněk ; VANČÁT, Pavel (advisor) ; Ledvina, Josef (referee)
The subject of my thesis is the position of Czech documentary photography during the normalization era in Czech territory. The term "position" encompasses several aspects of review: political and creative conditions under which the Czech documentary photography was originating; its status within the photography as artistic discipline and within other artistic disciplines; thinking about documentary photography and its changes over time; social application of documentary photography and its impact on society and, last but not least, its impact on political events. In the 70s and 80s the Czech documentary photography reached the greatest expansion, despite the uneasy political background. My thesis examines (among other things) how, why and under what circumstances this boom occurred.
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Bob Krčil
Douša, Jan ; MOUCHA, Josef (advisor) ; Buddeus, Hana (referee)
The life and work of Bob Krčil have so far been known from fragments and unsubstantiated legends. The aim of this essayistic piece is to lay out the deeper motives of his personal trajectory, photographic oeuvre, and activities for the Czech exile community. Krčil’s photographic body of work is inseparably connected with his eventful life. The writing of the thesis was preceded by tracking down and putting together Krčil’s fragmented estate, sorting out his correspondence and writings, and interviewing people who knew him personally. By drawing on these materials, the thesis aims to provide insight into the life and motivations of this important figure of Czech exile culture.
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Life and work of a Silesian photographer and painter Józef Raszka (1875-1929)
Klepáčová, Veronika ; BÁRTA, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Buddeus, Hana (referee)
The Master thesis deals with life and work of a Silesian photographer and painter Józef Raszka (1875-1929). During the compilation of the thesis emphasis was put on searching and collecting information in archives and finally on their processing into one comprehensive unit.
Generally, the thesis is divided into four main parts. The first chapter outlines historical events that took place during Raszka's life in a region he lived in. The other two chapters describe Raszka's life and the research method in detail. All of the chapters mentioned above should introduce this extraordinary and controversial personality to a reader and simultaneously get him/her acquainted with the artist's complicated character and interesting attitude toward life.
In the last chapter the findings are applied in order to interpret Raszka's work. The indivisible part of the thesis consists also of a photography illustration and a catalogue that can be found at end of the thesis and which encompasses reproductions of all Raszka's photographs which are known.
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Photographic archive of František Štěpánek
Šárková, Eliška ; Vančát, Pavel (advisor) ; SILVERIO, Robert (referee)
In my work, I would like to dedicate the topic of amateur photography, work should primarily use deductive methods - from general knowledge of amateur photography to a concrete example.
A concrete example will consist of an analysis of the archives of my grandfather, who is an extraordinary in the context of amateur photography.
Reasons: 1, the archive is purely amateur, but his unique approach to photography as: (thoughtful composition, experimental approach, inspired by famous photos)
2, all the pictures have a strong documentary value,
3, due preserved in a coherent set, we can infer the importance of family albums and emotions present in them. So I believe that my work can be beneficial for the topic of amateur photographs.
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Reflection of Photography Medium
Pleslová, Anna ; GRYGAR, Štěpán (advisor) ; PORTEL, Robert (referee)
This Bachelor thesis is aimed at reflection of photography's medium from its beginning to the present day. It is wave which is very popular and many authors are concerned with this but there wasn't anything written about yet. I mean in some summarize form and this is what I exactly wanted in my text. Introduction I devote to technical and philosophical questions which authors process the most often. I outline the beginnings of Analytical Photography and Visualism. In maim part of text I pick the most significant photographers who work with reflection of their medium and I research their production in more detail. Some essays about Czech representatives are supplemented by interviews which enable deeper insight to their way of thinking. In the end I generally summarize meaning of this wave. I reach the opinion that evolution of photography to this stage had its reasons and it was was inevitable. At the same time I can see some turning artists into themselfs and some kind of fulfilment of photography in its development.
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Dating women photographic portraits 1841 - 1914 by the fashion
Halama-Leite, Guna ; SCHEUFLER, Pavel (advisor) ; BÁRTA, Jaroslav (referee)
Exploring possibilities of dating photographs by clothing of the portrayed person. In my thesis I am working with women portraits, because changes in the women fashion of the period are more rapid and distinctive in comparision with men or children fashion. Beginning of period, described in the thesis is 1841, as in this year the first portrait atelier in Prague was opened, and end is 1914 as the beginning of the WWI.
Aim of my thesis is to show, that it is possible to date photographic portraits by their garment, accessories and haircuts within a decade. Advantages and disadvantages of dating by the fashion are described, further combination with other dating methods. Main part of the thesis is description of fashion silhouette, garment details modern accessories by the decades: 1840´s, 1850´s, 1860´s, 1870´s, 1880´s, 1890´s, 1900´s, 1910 - 1914.
Also, examples of dating by the fashion on particular photographs are included.
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Performance and the medium photography. 60´s and 80´s in Czechoslovakia
Mertová, Alexandra ; Vančát, Pavel (advisor) ; PREKOP, Rudolf (referee)
This thesis is a theoretical study on performance in relation to the medium of photography from the 1960s to 80s in Czechoslovakia. The first part is devoted to the medium of photography, photographic recorded performance and to the clarification of the concept of performance. Furthermore it marginally outlines the historical context of the Performing Arts and the concepts of happening, event and performance, and gives some examples of the world, but mostly Czechoslovak artists - performers. The core of the work is the creation of a typology in so far as it is related to both performance and phography, namely it's distribution into documentary photography, staged photographic performance and photo performance which is used in the multimedia work. Furthermore I present concepts of copyright photographs and photographs both authorized and unauthorized. This typology of approaches to the medium of photography I developed on the basis of personal interviews, in terms of this work considered crucial.
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Beskydy Mountains in the photography of the regional artists till the year 1948
Klepáčová, Veronika ; BÁRTA, Jaroslav (advisor) ; STECKER, Martin (referee)
The Bachelor thesis focuses on the selected artists who had been taking photographs of the landscape and the life in the Beskydy Mountains in the past, more accurately till the year 1948. The core of the thesis is collecting and searching information and finally its processing. Then, life values and photography works of the local photographs are compared. What is worth thinking about is for instance also the way in which the Beskydy Mountain?s landscape has been changing in the course of the time and with this also the relation of the man to the landscape. The work is accompanied by the photography illustration chosen from the work of the authors. As the landscape has been still changing, the thesis stresses the documentary value of the photography too. And thank to this, we can also nowadays have a look at how the landscape looked like many years ago.
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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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