The photography is in question. (Book review of Photography as…by Iosif Astrukov) Cover Image

Фотографията под въпрос. (Рецензия за книгата на Йосиф Аструков „Фотографията като…“)
The photography is in question. (Book review of Photography as…by Iosif Astrukov)

Author(s): Petia Alexandrova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Visual Arts, Communication studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Book-Review, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: Photography; stock photos; digital photography; hybrid forms

Summary/Abstract: In his monography "Photography as..." Yosif Astrukov reflects on the current state of the photographic image without exaltation and without criticism, as "science and art for reproduction". It raises several main discussions: about the original and its value in the "age of technical reproducibility"; about changing the reality and inauthenticity of images; for abandoning the documentary style of photography; about the boundary between the limitation of the photograph itself and the conscious manipulation of events, people and situations; for the lack of aesthetic originality, but the presence of acceleration in uses.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 145-149
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Bulgarian
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