The Colour of History
The Colour of History
Author(s): Tomasz SzerszeńContributor(s): Arthur Barys (Translator)
Subject(s): Visual Arts
Published by: Widok. Fundacja Kultury Wizualnej
Keywords: photography; Chernobyl; radiation; colors; Boris Mikhailov; Kharkiv School of Photography; history of the USSR; transformation; post-atomic visuality; catastrophe; atom; Stalker; iconoclasm; 1986
Summary/Abstract: Does History has its own colour? And what about the colour of disaster? Where does it meet with reflection on photography? This essay combines considerations on the use of colours in Boris Mikhailov’s photography and their historiosophical role in reflection on the decline of the Soviet Union and the years of transformation, with the question about “Chernobyl effect” in Soviet and post-Soviet society, especially in the context of political visibility / invisibility of radiation.
Journal: Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 119-135
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
