Medium of photography as artistic problem in late Soviet Lithuanian photography Cover Image

Fotografija kaip kūrybos problema vėlyvojo sovietmečio Lietuvoje
Medium of photography as artistic problem in late Soviet Lithuanian photography

Author(s): Ieva Mazūraitė-Novickienė
Subject(s): Photography, Visual Arts, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla
Keywords: transformation of the notion of photography; artistic problem; analogue photography; modernistic photography; amateur and professional photography; self-reflection; social networks; critic;authorship;

Summary/Abstract: The study analyzes the turn in reconsidering the medium of photography that took place in the 1980s. It is aimed at identifying the social and economic factors that influenced the development of a new attitude to the medium while exploring the activities of the Association of Lithuanian Art Photographers. The means and ways of self-education used by the photographers are discussed. The other focus of the study is on the artists’ reflections on photography, on the critical questions they posed to the tradition of modernist photography. Through the analyses of images, the following problems are highlighted: authorship, reference of photography to reality and indexicality.

  • Issue Year: 23/2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 264-282
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Lithuanian