"FOTOGRAFIA JEST NIE MA" WOKÓŁ "KOMENTARZY DO FOTOGRAFII "THE FAMILY OF MAN"" WITOLDA WIRPSZY
"FOTOGRAFIA JEST NIE MA [THE PHOTOGRAPH IS--BUT IT IS MUTE]" ON WITOLD WIRPSZA'S "KOMENTARZE DO FOTOGRAFII "THE FAMILY OF MAN"" ("COMMENTS TO THE PHOTOGRAPH "THE FAMILY OF MAN"")

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at a multilayer description of Witold Wirpsza's collection Komentarze do fotografii "The Family of Man" (Comments to the Photograph "The Family of Man"), which is interpreted in the context of literary-cultural interface. Grzegorz Olszański discusses the evolution of research in the connections between the two domains, and points at the iconic turn and the material turn, both of which added to the development of this research perspective. The centre of attention is occupied by the poet's emotional reaction to the famous Edward Steichen's exhibition and by the question about a possible of translation of what is affective into a literary text. The paper contains an analysis of the "affective poetics" and a presentation of Wirpsza's method to deconstruct the myth of photography as a commonly understandable and universal language.

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