Themes of the seminars:

BEGINNINGS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

BEGINNINGS OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY

THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE KEY FEATURES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIA

PHOTOJOURNALISM

Magnum Photos, Family of Man, Life, Look, Picture Post, Stern, Paris Match, Time

Weegee, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Werner Bischof, David Seymour, René Burri, Eugen W. Smith, Elliott ErwittBischoff, Marc Riboud, Leonard Freed, Robert Doisneau, Sebastio Salgado and others

WAR PHOTOJOURNALISM

Robert Capa, David Douglas Duncan, Donald McCullin, Philip Jones Griffith, Tim Page, Gilles Peress, James Nachtwey, Patrick Chauvell, Jan Šibík

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE WORLD

Newyork school of photography - Weegee, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, William Klein, Charles Harbutt, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Joel Meyrowitz, William Eggleston, Martin Parr, R. Billingham, Karl de Keyzer, Nan Goldin, Nabuyoshi Araki, Alex Webb, Sebastiaõ Salgado, W. Tillmans, Stephen Shore ad.

CZECH PHOTOGRAPHY

Sudek, Drtikol, Josef Koudelka, Markéta Luskačová, Pavel Štecha, Vojtěch Dukát, Jindřich Štreit, Bohdan Holomíček, Viktor Kolář,

POSTMODERNISM IN THE PHOTOGRAPHY AND STAGED PHOTOGRAPHY

Staged photography in postmodern times: Les Krims, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sally Man, Bettina Rheims, Joel-Peter Witkin, William Wegman, Bettina Rheims, Andreas Serrano, A.E.S., Matthew Barney, N. Araki. Pierre & Gilles, Gilbert & George, Barbara Kruger, Aziz & Cucher. Bernard Faucon, Tina Barney, Phillipe Lorca diCorcia, Jeff Wall. Parallels in the Czech photography

DIGDIGITALLY MANIPULATED PHOTOGRAPHY

Nancy Burson, Eva a Franco Mattes, Anthony Aziz, Sammy Cucher, Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Wall, Alexander Gursky. Libera ad.

PHOTOJOURNALISM AGENCIES AND STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

Magnum Photos, Gamma, Sigma, Sipa, Contact Press Images, Panos Pictures, VII Photos Agency. Digitalizace - Corbis. Fotobanka Getty Images.

WORLD COMPETITION

Journalistic photography Czech Press Photo, World Press Photo, Picture of The Year, Pulitzer.

PHOTOJOURNALISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE

PHILOSOPHY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

The key theoretical texts and methodologies.