History of Photography 2700-L-DM-Z3HIFO-FPR
The course aims to show the ways that photography has undergone, from an extremely labor-intensive and costly technology, the first three quarters of the nineteenth century, following rapid development after the invention of celluloid film and construction of the camera for everyone. Examples of the achievements of photographers from the analyzed period, are to realize how many important topics were taken, despite the inconvenient technology, and how many areas of photography has found its place then. During the lecture there will be shown a wider background to allow listeners to understand also the socio-political, technological and cultural reality of that period. Course shows that almost everything was shown in photography but still it appears that there are discoverers and original visionaries, showing new ways of development.
The aim of the course is also to familiarize with the achievements of photography in the last 80 years of the twentieth century and to show its role in society and culture, against the background of technical change, socio-political, and cultural manners in the period in Poland and abroad. With particular emphasis on its impact on learning about the world, learning about it and its inhabitants, and on the formation of tastes. The course will approximate the new technologies of photography and the pictures departure from being attributed to mirror reality. Artistic trends will be analyzed as well as the changing aesthetics of photography; also the course will identify the most important personalities of the period.
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
After completing the course:
KNOWLEDGE
1. Student knows the kinds of techniques and technologies of the first 80 years photography
2. knows the relationship between photographic images and the main intellectual currents of the nineteenth century and early twentieth
3. knows the changes that have taken place in photography from its invention to the end of the First World War and its impact on social life
4. knows the origins of the use of photography in the press, propaganda, science, documentation, arousing a sense of national community, tourism, private life as well as an independent artistic medium
5. knows the main ideas and themes and the most important photographers
6. Student knows trends in photography from the past 80 years of the twentieth century, the main ideological currents and major contributors
7. is familiar with the intensive development of the photographic medium and its deep roots in both the public by iconosphere reportage, advertising and illustration and private iconosphere through art, photography, and family memorial
8. knows the role of photography in a convincing and public opinion and setting cultural trends
9. knows the photographic techniques and technologies used in the twentieth century
SKILLS
1. Student is able to recognize the historical photographic techniques and technologies
2. knows how to identify the most valuable works and their impact on contemporary photography
3. knows how to relate historical photographic images of the broader cultural background from which the images are due
4. student knows how to estimate photographic works by referring them to the prevailing trends
5. knows how to use the knowledge on history of photography to select the right tools for observing the world and build their own, proprietary photographic expression
Assessment criteria
Final written exam 50%, written analysis of historical photographs and exhibition review 30%, presence during classes 20%
Practical placement
Lack of
Bibliography
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Michel Frizot (redakcja) – A New History of Photography. Konemann, Koln, 1998
Zenon Harasym – Stare fotografie. Poradnik kolekcjonera. Arkady, Warszawa, 2005
Francoise Heilbrun (redakcja) – A History of Photography. The Musee d'Orsay collection 1839-1925. Flammarion, Paris, 2009
Ian Jeffrey – Jak czytać fotografię. Lekcje mistrzów fotografii. Universitas, Kraków, 2009
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Michel Frizot (redakcja) – A New History of Photography. Konemann, Koln, 1998
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Daniela Mrazkova – Pribeh fotografie. Mlada fronta, Praha, 1986
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Matthew S. Witkovsky – Foto : Modernity in Central Europe 1918-1945. Thames & Hudson, New York, 2007
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