Koniec fotografii (cz. 2)
The End of Photography (Part 2)

Summary/Abstract: Lessing considered painting in terms of “privileged moments”. Philipe de Champaigne considered portraiture in terms of refined, and complicated method of showing life of a subject. Kierkegaard criticized Lessing’s aesthetics, because he believed that “an artist has at his/her disposal more limited tools than a writer”. When we consider our own life, we have to admit, that even a short moment is significant. Both artistic and documentary photography were discussed by art historians, and both perspectives refer to signs and icons... When photographs imitated paintings, theoreticians of art couldn’t produce clear theories of photography. We should be able to see the difference between iconic visions in paintings and in photographs. Some photographers realized that “photographic moments” weren’t, in fact, moments... Contemporary photography is connected with different aesthetic tendencies.

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