Икона и реч. Фотография и литература. Фотозанаятчии и фотожурналисти
Icon and speech. Photography and literature. Craftsmen and artists in photojournalism

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the autonomous history of photography as an art or craft, and traces the formation of the value norm and identity of this image-based occupation over the years. Since the mid-nineteenth century, photography has acquired the undisputed representative status of an operator in the unified media environment of society. Having this status, it dutifully fulfills the Roman motto „I came, I saw, I won“, dominating reality through its capture and verification in images. The main ideas in the paper can be subsumed under the following focal points: pictorialism and realism in photography; the notion of artistic value and the boundaries between painting, photography and poetry; the aesthetic nature of the photographic craft; and the relation between speech and drawing.

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