Photography in the 20th Century Cover Image

Fénykép a 20. században – a 20. század fényképe
Photography in the 20th Century

Author(s): Anna-Mária Szalma
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: private photography; autobiographic narratives; private rituals; communication

Summary/Abstract: The author presents her research of three private photography corpuses, each studied from different viewpoints: as a possible (auto)biographic narrative, as an instrument for the segmentation of the private space and time, as a ritual action, and as a form of communication, which functions within the confines of a narrow social unit (the family or a local community). During the 20th century, photography has become a medium of biographic discourse. The actuality of its study is supported not only by the fact that photography has become a part of everyday life, but also by the way in which it began to demand its rights in the discourse of the human sciences.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 34-44
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Hungarian