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Fotografia jako przedłużenie ciała
Photography as a body extension

Author(s): Zbigniew Tomaszczuk
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Media studies, Photography, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu
Keywords: performativeness; large format camera; decisive moment; gesture of making photos; selfie;

Summary/Abstract: The text concerns the performativeness of the process of making photographs. It discusses examples of experiencing photography through such medium as the photographer’s body. The relations between the photographer and the technological changes of photography have been analysed. The main subject is the process of making photographs concluded with a reflection on the relation between the viewer and the large format photographic artwork.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 2 (26)
  • Page Range: 134-149
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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