The purpose of the thesis is to describe and explore contemporary street photography: what are its guidelines, which questions does it address, how we perceive it today and how it is expressed in a photographic film. In the theoretical part the author discusses the characteristics of the classical street photography. She continues with novelties in the contemporary street photography, expressed through composition, message, motif and choice of the photographic equipment. The author supports these novelties with the works of the most successful photographers. They are members of the largest photography association Magnum Photo (Martin Parr, Richard Kalvar and Bruce Gilden), Gus Powell and Maciej Dakowicz (members of In-Public) as well as Michael Wolf as an independent artist. In the following chapter she researches analogue photography and describes how a photographic film works. She lists the novelties of analogue photography and explains why it has once again fascinated the young generation. The analysis describes the examination of three different colour negatives of 35mm photographic films. Based on the results, the author then decides which film is best suited for the use in the contemporary street photography. The third part of the master's thesis contains 15 copyrighted photographs taken in two different European cities with the selected photographic film. The author embraced the role of a street photographer and tried to capture the most exciting moments of the urban everyday life. In addition, these photos are precisely described with the technical data; analysed in an artistic manner and supported with some illustrative sketches of the photos. Her findings and conclusions are summarized in the final chapter.
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