Prawda obrazu czy obraz prawdy? Wizualne komponenty polskiej literatury reportażowej w dobie płynnego faktografizmu
Truth of Image or Image of Truth? Visual Components of Polish Reportage Literature in the Age of Fluid Factography

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to characterise the visual turn visible in recent years in Polish reportage literature. The reflection on the problem in question is profiled by two theses. Firstly, there is a growing importance of graphic components which adjoin the documentary text or co-create the material space of books classified as reportage. Secondly, the visual aspects of publications from this genre are increasingly exceeding the narrowly conceived documentarism as a result of the rejection of the rule of semantic transparency. The analysis driven by the distinguished theses and supported by references to the semiotics of the image covers two groups of issues. The first group consists of visual effects resulting from specific editorial procedures, including those resulting from the typographic layout of the text. The second is made up of photographs used in non-fiction books as a sense-making tool. As an exemplification of the processes studied, the author refers to selected publications by Mariusz Szczygieł, Filip Springer, Wojciech Tochman, Jarosław Mikołajewski, and Marcin Kołodziejczyk. The context for the considerations is the crisis of orthodox factography noticeable in the post-modern era, resulting in the liquidation of the notion of fact and the popularisation of quasi-non-fictional forms alternative to reportage.

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