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Minor sports in photography
Hrubá, Kateřina ; Géla, František (advisor) ; Lábová, Sandra (referee)
This bachelor thesis comprises of theoretial and practical part. The theoretical part uses interviews with professional czech sport photographers and relevant literature to define minor sports and its specific features, furthermore it compares photography of well-known major sports such as ice hockey or basketball to. This thesis also focuses mainly on the importance of photography within the media coverage and awareness of minor sports in subsequent chapters. Finally, there is a methodological chapter that describes the way the materials were processed and the creation of the practical section, which is designed as a photobook and offers an insight in a small world of lacrosse. It captures not only the games, but also the trainings and visually attractive backstage.
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Recreational Sportsmen's Community of FK Plácek Spořilov in documentary photography
Blatný, Jiří ; Géla, František (advisor) ; Lábová, Sandra (referee)
This practical bachelor's thesis aimed to create a photographic documentary about the recreational sportsmen's community of FK Plácek Spořilov football club. The photographic publication - which is the product of this practical thesis - brings testimony about sport and other social activities of the club and its operations. It is also a fragmental depiction of the place where most of those activities take place. The theoretical part of the thesis firstly attempts to define the concept of documentary photography as well as to show how its understanding has changed in history. It perceives sport as a socially significant fenomenon and it therefore lays out the aspects that place it into such a category. Followingly, the thesis endeavours to discuss the capacity of documentary photography to offer a deeper insight into social and psychological aspects of sports. Last but not least, it highlights selected work of those Czech documentary photographers who have related themselves to sport themes.
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Ethical aspects of photojournalism with focus on sports
Krátká, Eliška ; Géla, František (advisor) ; Lábová, Sandra (referee)
Theoretical part of this bachelor's thesis utilizes relevant scholar literature and interviews with photographers to define ethically disputed aspects of photojournalism such as invasion of privacy, media coverage of crises, depiction of violence, death and nudity, as well as picture manipulation - both before a photography is taken and during postproduction process. The thesis particularly focuses on sports photography and ethically disputed aspects related specifically to this field. Followingly, it lays out the limits of photographic display - which are crucial to discuss in relation to the subject of this text - and the trinity of basic principles regarding ethical decision-making (utilitarian principal, absolutist principal, golden rule) that should be considered by photojournalists and picture editors while publishing images that might be considered ethically controversial. Practical part of this thesis captures youth football team FK Admira Prague during 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons. It shows their training, matches and the backstage of their football world - both its light and dark sides.
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The development of czech sport's photojournalism from the middle of 20th century
Hejbal, Dominik ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Teplá, Jana (referee)
The paper deals with the development of the Czech journalistic sport photography from mid 20th century until recent time. Conditions that influenced the work of sports photographers are mapped, whether it was technical equipment, political constraints or other relevant facts. The paper mentions key events that have had importance in the Czech sports photography. The very beginnings of the Czech sports photography are described, too, to add context with the period followed. Furthermore, some noteworthy cases are mentioned, such as career change of a professional sportsman to a sport photographer. Ethically doubtful practices, once quite frequent, are followed, too. Another infrequently studied area of interest is discussed, which is the phenomenon of successful pictures of neglected events. The paper also provides the reader with a list of the foremost Czech sports photographers, a quantitative analysis of sport photos in the Rude Pravo daily (name later changed to Pravo). Main moments of change are studied from the point of view of the extent of the sport photography on the pages of Czech dailies. Since this topic has not been extensively covered by books, an important part of the paper is based on original interviews with veteran Czech sport photographers, including Stanislav Tereba, the only Czech winner...
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Photographer and lecturer Jan Regal
Smilková, Karolína ; POSPĚCH, Tomáš (advisor) ; LEDVINA, Josef (referee)
The thesis focuses on the photographer and lecturer Jan Regal. In the theoretical section summarizes his life and work as a photographic and educational activities. Jan Regal scope is predominantly in the Zlin region, where he comes from. The intention of this work is not only biography, but also his work in the context in the times.
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Stanislav Tereba: His Career and Photographic Style
Hejbal, Dominik ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Teplá, Jana (referee)
The paper focuses the career of photographer Stanislav Tereba, the only Czech winner of the main World Press Photo Prize. He succeeded with the photography of Miroslav Čtvrtníček, the soccer goalkeeper, played in Prague, Letna stadium. The paper deals mainly with Tereba's work in evening paper Vecerni Praha where the winning photography was paid a great attention there. As well as a lot of journalists since the 1990's Tereba have faced the problems after the Velvet Revolution when his career nearly stopped as the media went to private ownership. Tereba's career is explored in the context of the development of sports photography in the Czech Republic. Tereba's photographic style is studied by using semiotic analysis and the method of compositional interpretation there. In addition, the work consists of a case study of Tereba's success in World Press Photo. Tereba's photography is compared to the other winning photographs as well as to the competition in 1959 when he was honored with the main prize at the expense of war photographs usually awarded. Attention is also paid to the creation of Tereba's winning photography from participation in the stadium to subsequent photo editing.
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Comparative analysis of pictorial coverage of the olympic games in London 2012 in choses czech printed media and internet media
Šarešová, Petra ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (referee)
The thesis "Comparative Analysis of Pictorial coverage of the Olympic games in London 2012 in chosen printed media and internet media" deals with photographs published in MF DNES and on the Aktuálně.cz news server. The main focus is comparison of the photographs in the means of content, quantity and quality and to elucidate function of photo editors in media. In the first part the theoretical background necessary to understand this issue is presented - news values, gatekeeping, photography, photojournalism and mainly sport photography, photojournalism and ethics, difference between print and online media. The second part is the analysis. All the necessary information was gained using three approaches - quantitative content analysis, qualitative pictorial analysis and interviews with professionals. The quantitative analysis determines quantity and content of given photographs. The qualitative analysis refines the information regarding visual quality and content of the images. Interviews with employees of the selected media companies provide answers about choosing and editing the published photographs and explain the role of a gatekeeper. The thesis also verifies hypothesis that "online media prefer speed of publication over quality of photographs while printed newspapers prefer quality".
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Beginnings of czech sport journalism at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Sport as a part of czech press.
Lukšů, David ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Waic, Marek (referee) ; Sekot, Aleš (referee)
This dissertation is the very first scholarly text to bring a wider perspective on the genesis of Czech sport journalism, starting with its beginnings in the latter half of the 1800's and extending to the year of 1918, when this profession became an independent branch of the newspaper business. Given the paucity of original literature, the present work is based primarily on the study of period newspapers and archival materials, employing mainly the direct and the indirect methods of historiography. The main purpose of it was to describe the formation of the discipline of sport journalism in the broader context of the Czech society, sports and media, rather than regarding it as an independent, isolated process. The constituent parts of this dissertation, which renders the dawn of Czech sport journalism, include the most important titles of the day as well as the key personalities in the publishing and journalism of the period, the issue of sport reportage within the established political press, and also the genesis of the professions of sport journalist and sport photographer. The chapters that place the main theme within a wider historical context compare the brief description of the evolution of sport journalism in the Czech lands to the origins of sport journalism in other countries (Great Britain, USA,...
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