FOTOGRAFIA I ŚMIERĆ – UWIKŁANIE I REALNA STYCZNOŚĆ
Journal Title: DYSKURS Pismo Naukowo-Artystyczne ASP we Wrocławiu - Year 2017, Vol 24, Issue 24
Abstract
The canonic texts devoted to photography, written by R. Barthes and S. Sontag, have preserved the perception of this medium in the perspective of inevitable and inseparable connection with death. They have supplied a series of metaphors through which we describe photography as a “funereal” or nostalgic. These authors, however, were not the first ones who pointed at the relations occurring between photography and death. It turns out that they were noticed very soon after the medium had been discovered. The successive decades of photography development and critical thinking about it deepened interpretational threads of this kind even further. The text presents selected threads from the history of photography as well as theoretical reflection, which “established” and sanctioned this way of thinking about photography. In the second part of the text a division has been made into ¬post-mortem and pre-mortem photography. It comes down to isolating two categories of photographs, which either document dead bodies or capture people who are going to be killed or die shortly. The last part of the text contains reflections on three images, which concern the title issue in a different way. They draw attention, among others, to the fact, that while thinking about the relation photography – death, we cannot limit ourselves exclusively to the human aspect, but we have to take into consideration the fate of animals, often enormously tragic indeed.
Authors and Affiliations
TOMASZ FERENC
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP331664
- DOI -
- Views 99
- Downloads 0
MIRKA SZYCHOWIAK – TRZY WOLNOŚCI
Brak abstraktu.
WYSCHNIĘTE ŁZY Pamięć Zagłady w sztuce współczesnej
The smoke stacks of Auschwitz have changed our perception of the world for ever, and even though so many years have passed since the end of the 2nd world war, the memory of the Holocaust is still alive. A great merit can...
Obecność nieobecności. Przyczynek do badań nad muzeami fotografii
Piotr Jakub Fereński The Presence of Absence. A Supplement to the Study on Museums of Photography The article is a trailer of bigger publication in the field of visual studies on museums of photography. The author analyz...
Obraz wycięty z widoku. O symbolicznym znaczeniu kadru
Elżbieta Łubowicz Images Cut out from Views: on the Symbolic Meaning of Frames The key element in the form of photography is the frame. It reveals the potential for expression, which is still very little known. Because o...
„Pustynia doznań bezprzedmiotowych” – nowy realizm malarski Kazimierza Malewicza – ekskurs (a)historyczny
No ‚image of reality’ – no imaginary things – nothing but desert. This emptiness is enliven by the spirit pervading all no-object experience. – This way, questioning the objectivity in painting, Casimir Malewich wrote in...