FAMU, Department of Photography
History of Photography Final Bachelor Exam
Student draws two questions he/she has 10 minutes to answer both.
The names of the photographers are just suggesting authors, with whom the student can start answering the question.
19th century
1 - Historical conditions and presumptions in which photography was invented - way towards invention of heliography
Aristoteles, Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni della Porta, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Humphry Davy, Thomas Wedgwood, Joseph Nicéphore Niepce
2 - Daguerreotype technique and its application in the world.
3 - Calotype technique, important calotypists, Henri Fox Talbot, David Octavius Hill a Robert Adamson
4 - Wet collodion process, and phenomenon of photographical visit cards
5 - Photographic portrait of the 19th century / its styles and forms, David Octavius Hill a Robert Adamson, André Disdéri, Nadar, Étienne Carjat, J. M. Cameronová, L Caroll, M. Brady, J. Eckert, F. Fridrich, Jan Langhans
6- The Beginnings of art photography, English pictorialism, tableaux vivants and the staging principles, references to history Oscar Gustav Rejlander, Henry Peach Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameronová. L. Carroll
7 - Photographers travelers and landscape photographers from 1850 to 1880, William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, Roger Fenton, Auguste Bisson, Francis Frith, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, W. Jackson, J. Eckert, F. Fridrich
8 - Nudes in photography up to 1914, O. G. Rejlander, E. Steichen, C. H. White, A. Mucha, F. Drtikol, R. Demachy
9 - Photographical studies of movement / technical aspects of its boom between 1880 and 1890, Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne Jules Marey, Thomas Eakins
10 - Beginnings of war photography, R. Fenton, M. Brady, A. Gardner, T. H. O’Sullivan
11 - Naturalistic photography photography of country life and ethnographic photography, P.H. Emerson and his influence on A. Stieglitz
12 - First techniques of colour photography – Autochroms/
scientific photography, Lumiér brothers, E. Steichen, K. Šmirous
20th century
1 - The second wave of pictorialism - Art Noveau pictorialism on the turn of the 20the centiry: E. Steichen, G. Käsebier, A. L. Coburn, A. Stieglitz, C. Hudson White, R. Demachy, C. Puyo, , H. Kühn, Franz Fiedler, L Misonne, Rudolf Kopitz, František Drtikol
2 - Dadaism, surrealism, development of collage and montage: R. Hausmann, H. Hoech, J. Heartfield, E. Atget, Man Ray, H. Bellmer, C. Cahune, Jindřich Štýrský, k. Teige
3 - Constructicvism in Germany and Soviet Russia: Bauhaus, L. Moholy-Nagy, H. Bayer, Umbo, W. Peterhans A. Rodchenko, G. Klucis, El Lissickij, B. Ignatovitch
4 - Czech avantgarde: J. Funke, J. Rössler, J. Sudek, F. Drtikol, J. Štýrský, K. Teige, E. Wiškovský,
5 - European and American New Objectivity: A. Sander, A. R. Patzsch, K. Blossfeldt, E. Weston, A. Adams, I Cunningham, P. Strand, W. Evans
6 - Social documentary photography between the turn of the century and the 30‘s: J. Riis, L. Hine, FSA photographers D. Lange, W. Evans, Photo League
7 - Journalist, live and documentray photography before WW II:
E. Salomon, A. Eisenstadt, J. H. Lartigue, A. Kertész, Brassai, B. Brandt, H. Cartier-Bresson, Chim
8 - Docuemntray photography in the WW II and after it: Magnum Agency, R. Capa, D. Baltermanc, H. Cartier-Bresson, Chim, Izis, R. Doisenau, W.E. Smith, W. Bischof, The Family of Man
9 - Czech photography after WW, documentarists, Z. Tmej, K. Hák, the surrealists:, V. Reichmann, E. Medková, E. Fuková
10 - „New York school of photography:“ A. Brodovitch, Weegee, R. Frank, W. Klein, D. Arbus, G. Winogrand,
11- Czech and Slovak documentray photography from 60’s to 80’s: J. Koudelka, M. Luskačová J. Štreit, V. Kolář, B.Holomíček, P. Štecha M. Martinček, K. Kállay
12-Traditional genres after WWII – landscape, portrait, still-life form 60’s to 80’s: B. Weston, M. White, B. Brandt, H. Callahan, M. Giacomelli, J. Sudek, Y. Karsh I. Penn, A. Newman, R. Avedon, J. Svoboda
13- Pop art a mixed media an conceptual photography, principe of appropriation: R. Raushenberg, A. Warhol, R. Heinceken, D. Hockney, B. Kruger E. Ruscha, S. Levine, R. Prince
14 - Deadpan and New Topographics photography in Germany and USA and later parallels in Czech photography New Color Photography: the Bechers, (and their students), A. Gursky, L. Baltz, R. Adams, and parallels in Czech photography Jasanský Polák, project Český člověk, S. Shore, W. Eggleston
15 - Various forms of documentary photography in the 80‘s and early 90’s: M. Parr, R. Billingham, N. Waplington K. De Keyzer, S. Salgado, J. Nachtway, N. Goldin, W. Tillmans
16 - Staged photography from 70’s till early 90’s – postmodern age:
D. Michals, C. Sherman, R. Mapplethorpe, A. Serrano, S. Mann
J.P. Witkin, N. Araki, Slovak New Wave: M. Svolík, R. Prekop, V. Stanko, Tono Stano, Župník
17 – Digitally manipulated photography: N. Burson, Aziz a Cucher, G. Crewdson, J. Wall
18 – Contemporary world photography, main tendencies: any remarkable authors
19 – Contemporary Czech photography, main tendencies: any remarkable authors