Introduction to photojournalism - JJB154

• Title: Introduction to photojournalism
• Guaranteed by: Department of Journalism (23-KZ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (12)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. MgA. Filip Láb, Ph.D.; Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : JKB106
• Is incompatible with: JKB106

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D. (23.12.2019)

The aim of this class is to master the practical basics of photography. Students will learn the technical and creative basics of photography and the digital process. The important part of the class is the analysis of pictures and achieving greater visual literacy. Students should be interested in visual culture and photography. The class is time-consuming; it is necessary to take photographs every week outside the timeframe of lectures. CLASS IS FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS ONLY!!!

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D. (23.12.2019)

The aim of the class is to master the photographic process with Digital Single Lens Reflex camera, to understand and master photography process, digital workflow, to achieve basics of creative, compositional, and decompositional part of photography. Mastering of the digital photographic camera leads to the ability to previsualization, work better with any type of modern automatic digital camera. Students should broaden their visual literacy skills, master basics of the photographic process and taking photographs, and learn about basic characteristics of the photographic medium in general.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D. (23.12.2019)

ELKINS, James. What photography is. New York: Routledge, 2011.

FREEDMAN, M.: Encyclopedia of Practical Photography, Tiger Books int. London, 1993.

HEDGECOE, J. : The Book of Photography, DK Adult, 2005.

JOHANSSON, T. D.: The New Image: On the Temporarility of Photographic Representation after Digitalization, COSIGN, 2002

KOBRE, K. Photojournalism The Professionals' Approach: 3nd Edition. Focal Press, 1991.Manovich, L.: The Languafe Of New Media, The MIT Press, 2001

MITCHELL, W. Picture theory: essays on verbal and visual representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1994.

PATTERSON, F. Photography and the art of seeing. Toronto : Key Porter Books, c1989.

RITCHIN, Fred. Bending the frame: photojournalism, documentary, and the citizen. 1st ed. New York: Aperture, 2010.

WELLS, Liz. Photography: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, 2004

WRIGHT, T. The photography handbook.London, New York : Routledge, 2004

ZUROMSKIS, Catherine. Snapshot photography: The lives of images. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013, 358 s. ISBN 978-0-262-01929-3.

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D. (23.12.2019)

The class is divided into a theoretical part, discussions, and picture analysis. In their free time, students take photographs in the field.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D. (23.12.2019)

Required: full attendance (30 points) and active participation (30 points) in each lecture and lab, all photographic tasks finished, edited, and presented (40 points). The minimum gain is 80 points from 100.

Registration requirements

Last update: Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D. (23.12.2019)

Students are required to have basic knowledge and experience in working with image processing software, e.g., Photoshop. Teaching the use of image processing software is not a part of this course!

Own DSLR camera and the personal computer necessary.