Konstelacje fotografologiczne, czyli moje widzenie cudzego widzenia
Photographologic Constellations, or My Seeing of Someone Else’s Seeing

Summary/Abstract: The text is a review of the volume Pisanie i czytanie (o) fotografii – odkrywcy, klasycy, obrazoburcy [Writing and Reading (about) Photography: Explorers, Classics, Iconoclasts] (2023) by Piotr Zawojski. The articles collected in this book are devoted to selected texts from the photographologic canon, and concern photography in artistic-theoretical practices. Genre-wise, this is a publication on artistic doctrines and axio- and ontological theories. The author’s subjective choice is representative of narrativism. The interpretations are conducted from a preposterous perspective and (re)present the present time of the engaged author, which fits in with the post-criticality of contemporary humanities and their affectivity. Such meta-historical and meta-theoretical view allows for a post-critical rethinking of established problems of photography and poses a key question: what does reading the canon give us today? And the book’s meta-metareading allows us to unveil the essence of a post-critical “hermeneutics of suspicion” (as defined by Rita Felski), whose aim is a new reading. According to the reviewer, the tool here is scientific essayism, whose anti-systemic, emotionally involved form shows what affective, ergo effective writing/ reading is and what uses it has today.

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