Negotiating the arrangement of reality. Iga Gańczarczyk speaks with Krzysztof Pijarski Cover Image

Negocjowanie kształtu rzeczywistości. Z Krzysztofem Pijarskim rozmawia Iga Gańczarczyk
Negotiating the arrangement of reality. Iga Gańczarczyk speaks with Krzysztof Pijarski

Author(s): Iga Gańczarczyk
Subject(s): Photography
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Photography; Krzysztof Pijarski; Interview

Summary/Abstract: Iga Gańczarczyk discusses with Krzysztof Pijarski, a photographer and theorist, about the documentary nature of photography. Pijarski supports methods of depiction which contain “a gesture whose effect on the viewer is in parentheses.” Photography should not pretend to present the truth, but should rather provoke the question, “Why do we show something this way, rather than another?” The theorist ponders the use of strategies of deception and fictionalization and how a sense of strangeness is created through the use of documentary technique.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 109/110
  • Page Range: 53-58
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish