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Mourning and visual tropes in photojournalism
Jarolímková, Zuzana ; Průchová Hrůzová, Andrea (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
About the repetition in art first has written in the 19th century the art historian Aby Warburg who described them as the formula of pathos. He pointed out that these gestures were connected by human emotion which repeats itself independently of the culture. His work inspired Marienne Hirsch who came up with the term memory figures which are used in the visual culture as a representation of a certain historic event. They are part of creating the "postmemory", especially in connection with the second world war. Nowadays, our space is more saturated with photos than with paintings. However, we still can see the influence of art from history and some photographers try to reproduce famous scenes. With inspiration from previous studies, Marta Zarzycka a Martijn Kleppe focused on this "trend" visual tropes which are used not only for better understatement of photos but also for stronger influence on readers. The thesis Mourning and visual tropes in photojournalism aim to show this trend in current media outlets on the tropes of mourning which are connected with the pandemic of coronavirus and war in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020.
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Photographic essay of yestrday and today (comparison of media image of war conflicts in news periodicals)
Havlovicová, Anna ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Láb, Filip (referee)
The diploma thesis Photographic essay of yesterday and today (comparison of media image of war conflicts in news periodicals) presents comparison of the visual image of photographic essay of the 50s and 60s - the classical photojournalism period, with the contemporary one. The diploma thesis examines photographic essay, using war photography as an example. For clarity, photographic essays from two major war conflicts are examined. The pictures published in the American news magazine LIFE dealing with the Vietnam war are used as an example of the photographic essay produced during the classical photojournalism era of the 50s and 60s. Photographic essays published by the members of VII Photo Agency committed to the Iraq war serve as an example of the contemporary work. This thesis analyses the individual photos and the visual image of photographic essay on the whole, too. The aim of the diploma thesis is to demonstrate that modern technology highly affects the visual image of today's photographic essays.
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War photographer Antonín Kratochvíl
Vondrášková, Alena ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Halada, Jan (referee)
The subject of this bachelor thesis gives an idea of the personality and work of the photographer Antonín Kratochvíl. Kratochvíl is one of eminent photographers not only in the Czech Republic, but also worldwide. The objective of this thesis is to describe his attitudes to photographing and situations he depicts, in particular attitudes to depicting war conflicts and violence. He strives for summarizing key events affecting his life and for ascertaining how such situations influenced his work. The thesis describes how the author depicts facts from esthetical, technical or ethical viewpoints. By concrete photographs, it tries to explain the method how Kratochvíl works, summarize his principles and assess the possible causes of his success. The thesis also detects the aspects of journalistic photographs and professional, social- political and esthetical aspects of the profession of the photographer.
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Visual framing of rwandan genocide in 1994
Macků, Anna ; Géla, František (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
The thesis deals with the issue of photographs taken during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The ethnically motivated conflict, in which the Hutu majority tried to exterminate the Tutsi minority, claimed almost a million victims in a hundred days. The Rwandan genocide is notoriously associated with machetes and radio. Most of the victims were killed with primitive weapons, and the murders of neighbours and family members took place under the influence of a propaganda radio broadcast. The thesis describes how photojournalism in the 1990s reported on such a specific conflict as modern genocide. The thesis uses visual framing analysis, which is based on the theory of framing. After that it was possible to identify the recurring visual frames through which the Rwandan genocide is depicted in the images.
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Photographs of Children in the Media during the Syria War
Benešová, Stanislava ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Géla, František (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the subject of images of children in the war in Syria. It does so by analysing photographs of children, ranging from toddler years to teens, doing different activities. The methodology used is image analysis and compositional interpretation which enables to inspect the images in more depth. The images are compared in the context of contemporary war photography. For this reason history of war photography is discussed as well as recent years of this genre. Following up, are chapters regarding the Syrian War itself, as well as children in war images in the history and the ethics side of this issue. The whole text is accompanied by notes and inside information from Reuters photoeditor Russell Boyce.
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Transformations of the media image of death in photojournalism
Jarolímková, Zuzana ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Géla, František (referee)
The thesis is focusing on the transformation of the media picture of death with practical insight on war photography. During my thesis, I am going to introduce the point of view on death and its presentation in media outlets. My work aims to show changes in media coverage of the death, including the reaction from the audience. The critical aspect of my thesis is to show in practical part changes through visual and semiotic analysis on selected samples of news photography.
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Atrocity images and the Audience
Lin, Jun-Ye ; JANOŠČÍK, Václav (advisor) ; ŠERÝ, Ladislav (referee)
Susan Sontag’s reviews and descriptions of agony images is the keystone of war photography. From On photography(1977) to Regarding the Pain of Others(2003), Sontag wrote about how agony images could affect the majority of people. Media ruled photographs and used them as its own container. Through her book, the passiveness of the audiences was examined. She criticised the way of how people looked at an agony image. According to her, audiences constantly consumed other’s pain if the they are far away. She judged repeating formats and simplified messages from media which numb the sensation of people, the surfeit of similar horrendous images turned an audience into a consumer. “Is a photograph ever “real”? she asked. Firstly, within in my thesis I would like to to examine the relevancy of Sontag theory, her interests in emotion in charge of atrocity and pain. To found out the possible respond of the audience, in respect to war in contemporary art photography. When artists have the chance to turn their camera from those atrocity on sites, what could be the differences in audiences’ reactions from traditional war photojournalist. Moreover, Sontag’s concept “the audience as consumers” will be traced back to its basic elements. To scan the particular words and phrase which Sontag used in her two books. Secondly, use Regarding the Pain of Others(2003) as a starting point of the timeline, then search for the critical thoughts which against or support Sontag’s words during the decade. Furthermore, use different concepts of the agony images to examine the remarkable singular atrocity images and the art works relate to war and atrocity. To explore the change according to the interaction between atrocity and contemporary photography and their audiences. After all, use the dialects between the theories and the war in contemporary art photography to extent the perspective from Regarding the Pain of Others(2003) to get closer to our time — to build the the reference of how to see an agony image.
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Comparative analysis of war photography and working methods of Patrick Chauvel and James Nachtwey
Plíhal, Jakub ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Štefaniková, Sandra (referee)
The goal of Comparative analysis of war photography and working methods of James Nachtwey and Patrick Chauvel bachelor thesis is to compare methods of war photography of two respected photographers, Patrick Chauvel and James Nachtwey. Author analyses and compares their professional life with focus on their professional milestones. The purpose is to describe their working methods, composition and subject selection, therefore how war is diplayed in their pictures supposing to document the conflict. This work is based on the assumption that photographers' distinct personality traits and strong opinions on war journalism necessarily influence their photographic style. Author analyses their respective iconic war photographies using visual analysis.
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