Фотография и литература. Из литературните периферии
Photography and Literature. From the Literary Peripheries

Summary/Abstract: The functional unity of the media environment at the beginning of the twentieth century gives rise to adjustments in the institutional fields of culture, which otherwise live in real cooperation. The picture of the vast territories of mass culture is particularly fluid. The present text examines boundary “violations” between literature and photography, which manifest themselves through the exchange of value and style ideas, precipitated in commonly used clichés. How do literary and photographic notions of image realism interact? Are they able to take autonomous life directions? Here we deliberately select para-literary uses undertaken by important Bulgarian artists (Vazov, Chudomir), and by unknown commissioned poets or advertisers, by photographers and reporters. We fixate on the existence of verbal and visual genres that inhabit the territories of the aesthetic periphery: cartoon, doodle, pattern, sketch, photo portrait, essay.

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