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Introduction to Photojournalism

Class at Faculty of Social Sciences |
JJB018

Syllabus

1) Journalistic photography, photojournalism, theory, features, practise. Terms.

2) Technical evolutin of photography.

3) History of photojournalism.

4) Selected works and personalities from worlds photojournalism.

5) Selected works and personalities from czech photjournalism.

6) Contemporary photojournalism - newspaper.

7) Contemporary photojournalism - magazine.

8) Agencies, stock photography.

9) New technologies and its influence on photojurnalism.

10) Ethical and justice issues of photojurnalism.

Annotation

The lecture introduces students to the theoretical concept of journalistic photography and photojournalism, and visual culture in general, demonstrates its features, genres, its historical roots, evolution, shows important works from the history of photojournalism. Part of the lectures is the analysis of contemporary, photojournalistic production in the Czech Republic and abroad.

It also opens the problems of ethics of photojournalism, and actual issues as-is process of digitalization, etc.