ТЕНДЕНЦИИ В ПОЕТИКАТА НА ФОТОГРАФСКИЯ ОБРАЗ ПРЕЗ ПРИЗМАТА НА ФОТОКОНКУРСА НА БИЕНАЛЕ „ФОДАР“ (2013 – 2021)
TRENDS IN THE POETICS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE THROUD THE PRISM OF THE “PHODAR” BIENNIAL PHOTO CONTEST (2013 – 2021)

Summary/Abstract: In the second decade of the 21st century, the transition from analog to digital photography was generally finalized. The classic gelatin silver process ultimately departed for the realm of exotic artistic technologies or is applied as a source for the design of digital images. Social networks evolve rapidly, some of them first and foremost publishing photographs. Traditional media create their own online versions; the number of new information sites thrives. Mobile devices equipped with network access and a wide range of software, as well as hardware peripherals - including photo and video - develop without end. Under these conditions, today's access to information is practically unlimited and so everyone can access any digital space from their phone, visit world's galleries and museums and more than that, share photos taken here and now. On that account, what is the stature of festivals, among which is the "PHODAR" contest, in such plethora of images? Does the ever increasing all-presence of photography in the online space has an impact on the specific language of fine art photography, or are these separate antithetical fields of application? Can related trends be detected in the collections of the PHODAR Biennial editions from 2013 to 2021? These are the questions that have prompted the inception of this text. The work traces the authors' focus on issues and events that are both of public interest and at the same time, had been insufficiently brought to light, along with the observed alterations in figurative syntax, the expansion of detail and the evolution in the construction of the narrative structure. Ultimately, it explores the search for new aspects in the unity of form and content.In the second decade of the 21st century, the transition from analog to digital photography was generally finalized. The classic gelatin silver process ultimately departed for the realm of exotic artistic technologies or is applied as a source for the design of digital images. Social networks evolve rapidly, some of them first and foremost publishing photographs. Traditional media create their own online versions; the number of new information sites thrives. Mobile devices equipped with network access and a wide range of software, as well as hardware peripherals - including photo and video -develop without end. Under these conditions, today's access to information is practically unlimited and so everyone can access any digital space from their phone, visit world's galleries and museums and more than that, share photos taken here and now.On that account, what is the stature of festivals, among which is the "PHODAR" contest, in such plethora of images? Does the ever increasing all-presence of photography in the online space has an impact on the specific language of fine art photography, or are these separate antithetical fields of application? Can related trends be detected in the collections of the PHODAR Biennial editions from 2013 to 2021? These are the questions that have prompted the inception of this text. The work traces the authors' focus on issues and events that are both of public interest and at the same time, had been insufficiently brought to light, along with the observed alterations in figurative syntax, the expansion of detail and the evolution in the construction of the narrative structure. Ultimately, it explores the search for new aspects in the unity of form and content.

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