ВИЗУЕЛНИ КОНТРАПУНКТ СТРУКТУРАЛИЗМА: ФОТОГРАФСКО ПИСАЊЕ КЛОДА ЛЕВИ-СТРОСА
VISUAL COUNTERPOINT OF STRUCTURALISM: PHOTOGRAPHIC WRITING OF CLAUDE LÉVY-STRAUSS
Author(s): Nicoletta DiasioContributor(s): Slavica Stupar (Translator)
Subject(s): Photography, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Evaluation research
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: Structualism; Photographic writing; Claude Lévi-Strauss;
Summary/Abstract: With the fieldwork and the promotion of the point of view "of the native", scientific ethnology introduces new practices linked to the photo. First Boas and Malinowski, then Bateson and Mead, Griaule and Leiris, but also Verger, Tillion and Lévi-Strauss practise a new glance which is translated in a new photographic style. This article analyzes the ambivalent relationship that Lévi-Strauss has had with photography. The analysis of some pictures realized by Lévi-Strauss during the expeditions in Mato Grosso and in Amazonia between 1935 and 1939, then published in Saudades do Brasil (1994), reveals some tensions which are implicit in all the work of the author: the oscillation between scientific rigorous concern and passion for the artistic creation, the report of the rational and the sensitive as means of knowledge, the imperative of the distance and the implicitly reflexive dimension of certain Lévi-Strauss productions.
Journal: Социолошки преглед
- Issue Year: 43/2009
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 251-264
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Serbian
