**While this syllabus constitutes a generally accurate breakdown of the course and the material we will cover, it is also subject to change as per the needs of students and our progress.**

SCHEDULE

Week 1 - What is a Photographic Image?

Image Producers — Egene Atget, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Sudek

Reading: Susan Sontag, “On Photography”

Week 2 - Early Photography

Image Producers — Friedrich Franz, Ludwig and Viktor Angerer, Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Rathenitz, et al.

Reading: Walter Benjamin, “The Art Object in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, Arcade Project (selections)

Week 3 - Photographic Images in Movement : Cinema’s Predecessors

Image Producers — Eadweard Muybridge, Zoetropic producers, Ottomar Anschütz

Reading: Richard J. Leskosky, “Phenakiscope: 19th Century Science Turned to Animation”

Week 4 - Ethnicity and Ethnography- Ethnographic Images

Image Producers- Martin Martinček/Dušan Hanák, Pavol Socháň, Czechoslavic Ethnic Exhibition of 1905

Reading: Jean Baudrillard, Simulation and Simulacra

Week 5 - The Lives of Objects : Surrealism in Film and Photography pt. I

Image Producers - Josef Sudek, Jindřích Štyrský, Jan Švankmajer

Reading: Andre Breton, “The Surrealist Manifesto”

Midterm 1 Due

Week 6 - Abstract Photographs and Concrete Desires

Image Producers - László Moholy-Nagy, Jaroslav Rössler, Karel Teige

Reading: Karel Teige Poetism Manifesto

Week 7 - Avant-Garde Film : A Collection of Photographic Images

Image Producers—Jaroslav Kučera/Věra Chytilová, Tarr Bela, Fabri Zoltan

Reading: W.J.T. Mitchell, Picture Theory (excerpts)

Week 8 - Postcards, and the Photographic Image as Mementos

Image Producers : Emanuel Alexander Herrmann, Pavol Socháň

Reading: Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography (excerpts)

Week 9 - Got Something to Sell You : Advertising, Fashion and the Photographic Image

Image Producers — Herbert Bayer, Baťa Film, Ernst Haas

Reading: Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle (excerpts)

Week 10 - Street Photography and Photojournalism: Capturing the Moment

Image Producers — Ladislav Bielik, Zoltán Glass

Reading : Henri Cartier-Bresson The Decisive Moment

Midterm 2 Due

Week 11 - “Do přírody!” Nature Photography and Cultural Memory

Image Producers — Karel Plicka, Irena Blühová, Early Hungarian Cinema

Reading : Rosalind Krauss - Voyage to the North Sea (excerpts)

Week 12 - City Symphonies, Travelogues, and the Cinema of Attractions

Image Producers — Brassaï (aka Gyula Halász), Robert Capa, Walther Ruttmann

Reading: Ivan Chtcheglov, “Formulary for a New Urbanism”

Week 13 The Photographic Image in Contemporary Life

Image Producers — Contemporary Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Austrian Photography

Reading: Fred Ritchin “After Photography” (excerpts)

Final Due