Snienie na jawie
Daylight Dreaming

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary photographers like to use theatrical scenery and props in order to refer to medial, fictitious situations. Advertising artists contribute to disintegration of our personality and to social alienation. We try to find new identity for ourselves, and we search for universal values. Theatre directors, such as Jerzy Grotowski, Henryk Tomaszewski, Grzegorz Brala and Pawe³ Dudziñski, were interested in theatre as the medium of introspection. Their performances included motifs, which inspired Polish artist photographers, who combined the two media, theatre and photography, in order to show unusual scenery. As did old masters of photography, they, too, used actors as models in their studios. There were no witnesses of the process of theatralization. We only can see final products of artistic actions: the photographs. Photographers show symbolic scenery, which might be the result of careful planning or improvisation. Photography refers to myths and dreams. Quasi-symbolic gestures and arrangements show seemingly real situations, which cannot be described in literature or documentary texts.

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