Fotografia Reportażowa a Strategie Oporu. I Ogólnopolski Przegląd Fotografii Socjologicznej (1980)
Reportage Photography and Strategies of Resistance. The First All-Poland Review of Sociological Photography (1980)

Summary/Abstract: The First All-Poland Review of Sociological Photography in Bielsko-Biała (1980), consisting of three main exhibitions and several accompanying exhibitions, was closed by the censor five days after its opening. The article analyzes the concept of the exhibition and the discussions taking place within it. Particular attention was paid to the need to reconstruct the history of socially engaged photography in Poland, born during the “Solidarity Carnival.” An important element of this reconstruction process was the redefinition of the tradition of humanist photojournalism, shaped in the West and developed in Poland since the 1950s. The reflection on The First All-Poland Review of Sociological Photography contributed to rethinking the tension between photojournalistic practices becoming part of the visual language of the propaganda of PRL, on the one hand, and creating the area of “cultural resistance” on the other.

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