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Master thesis concerns reflection of Sociology of Housing in Photography. It is divided into three sections with different approach. Introduction section examines mutual relation between sociology and photography as two modern research fields. The second chapter addresses sociological approach of photographers and movements in history of photography. Concluding chapter attempts detailed sociological analysis of work of contemporary photographers and artist from our geographical area, which reflects housing theme. This analysis employs sociology of housing knowledge.

Diploma thesis provides a deeper look on the phenomenon of financial crisis in the context of social documentary photography. The core of the thesis lays in comparing FSA in 1930´s and contemporary projects which are focused on economic crisis. Apart from analyzing work of selected FSA authors I do also focus on Meith&Hagel´s work and August Sander´s photographs. In second part of the thesis I am exploring new forms of social photography in contemporary world. I am describing work of three different authors reflecting nowadays financial situation with the help of fine art photography.

Rezension zu Edema, Patricia Stella: Bilder des Wandels in Schwarz und Weiß. Afro-amerikanische Identität im Medium der frühen Fotografie (1880-1930), Bielefeld, 2013

The code assigned to the subject, entering into interactive environment, is setting and determining its future existence. In the virtual environment, the absence of a numerical description makes a subject untrackable. Only by assigning a unique code does the affair begin to exist for the computing world. After receiving the code, the subject somehow comes to life, becoming recognisable, categorised, searchable - possessing existence. Every environment we are situated in can be perceived as panned and scanned. Cameraless photography, we meet in a moment of our existence, in an artificial space. We are scanning and at the same time we are being scanned. In the process of scanning and taking pictures, what part is the human playing? A person who can be seen as a tool of cameraless photography? Is he following the rules, or creating them? Or, is he himself a tool to the process of cameraless photography? Is he the individual who determines and recognizes the point that is set for the existence and meaning of cameraless photography?

Detailed manual for processing of digital files - from electronic capturing of image, through image formats to the pre-press.

Close look on the meaning of the work of polish photographer Rafal Milach and his life.

Work solves the problem of long-term storage DOP želatinostříbrného positives. The first part focuses on identifying material composition based on the description of the production and manufacturing process. In the second part defines the factors influencing climate in the depository, description and causes harm DOP želatinostříbrného positives and fundamental questions of the issue of preventive care. Work is a study of contemporary literature technological DOP in the range of 1880-1950 years, the issue of preventive care is handled by specialized research studies domestic and foreign literature, between the years 1970-2015. Processed were books, articles in professional periodicals, anthologies of texts, and grant research reports, guidelines and standards. The result is putting conditions for long-term storage DOP, current recommendations for long-term storage DOP želatinostříbrných positives by comparing the approaches of professional institutions focusing on preventive care for the photography.

In my thesis I focused on the topic of the night in the Czech fine arts from the 19th to the 21st century. The aim of my work is not conduct a survey of the issues as a whole, it does not make efforts to be a historical outline, but the goal is to present a different conception of the night in the works of some selected artists. This text is concentrating on the works of artists who design the night in the landscape and urban sceneries. In every night scene we can see the light, either natural or artificial, which is the bearer of artist´s imaginings. The work goes from the introduction of the light and darkness symbolism throughout the era of the human history and physical essence of the light to the presentations of individual artists who reflect the night with natural kinds of light or the artificial ones.

Thesis bearing the name ?Boarders of Contemporary Documentary Photography? is focused on specific development, which underwent foreign documentary photography for about last two decades. The work is divided into three separate chapters, each of them deals with a different topic. The first chapter deals with the process of integration of documentary photography in an artistic context. The following chapter provides detailed reports on a new trend in documentary photography, which is called conceptual documentary photography. The third part is devoted to the remarkable personality of contemporary documentary photography - Allan Sekula. His photographic and closely related theoretical work is so specific that it is allocated a separate area.