Pubblicato il: 2018-12-31

Nie-widoki. Fotograficzne narracje o bólu

Marianna Michałowska
Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
Sezione: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2018.5.16

Abstract

The article is based on the analyses of two photo-texts by young Polish photographers, Paweł Starzec and Łukasz Gniadek. Both artists show cultural landscapes in a ‘new topography’ style to tell stories about the war trauma of inhabitants of displayed areas. Makeshift by Starzec is dedicated to victims of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Under the Surface by Gniadek refers to Polish Jews history in Warsaw. Photographers present no visual signs of the bygone tragedy, however – through focusing on landscapes – they direct attention of the viewer to the drama of human loss. Remembering that, according to the title of Susan Sontag’s book, in photography we ‘regard the pain of Others’, I state that a view of pain does not have to be the main means used in visual narration on suffering. Paradoxically, it is a ‘view’ that blocks the empathy for the Other. Thus we need a non-view to understand the experience of those who suffer.

Regole di citazione

Michałowska, M. (2018). Nie-widoki. Fotograficzne narracje o bólu. Załącznik Kulturoznawczy, (5), 287–304. https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2018.5.16

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