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This paper analyzes the visual representation of women in Albania from 1945 to 1990, as especially in ´the pictures magazine "New Albanian", organ of the Organization of Women's Union of Albania. The study is based on the theory of analysis and synthesis of photography, Manfred Lueger, and proposes the analysis visual through the concept of "glorification symbolic", to accept the latter as part of the necessary effort of the ideological regime to prove that participation of women in politics and in the labor force was a sign of their emancipation. By analyzing the pictures, there is a kind of "neglect" aspects linked to femininity, and the female identity compacted with contemporary ideological purposes.
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Political street art and slogans appear as visual markers of the shifting, complex discourses of power struggles, marginality, and countercultures that establish a new reality which must be seen and heard. As an art form, it is largely connected to and inspired by the existing social conditions. In the era of crisis, the central Athens of bygone years is now a terrain of conflict and metamorphosis, and the city’s walls are screaming a thousand stories. In other words, city walls are the canvas, and social conditions are the paint in a gallery of untold stories. Redefined symbols, decomposed stereotypes, re visioned aesthetics, and antiracist slogans are the tools for the transformation of walls into social diaries. In this light, street art is examined as a form of social diary, a visual history of marginalized and minority groups. Street art captures the need for self-expression in a changing environment, and street artists actively participate in the production of culture in the micro level by consciously contributing to the need for urban re-visions.
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Kowalska Urszula, “Prosthetic” Memory, “Aftersights” of Memory, Memory “Easy to Consume”? A Few Words About Visual Remembrance of the Holocaust. “Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne” 12. Poznań 2017. Publishing House of the Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, pp. 331–345. ISSN 2084-3011. Discussion about the borders restricting (unavoidable today) aestheticization of memory about the Holocaust experience is still valid – in the article are recalled some different strategies of remembering the Holocaust in the art using photography. Two of the artistic projects (Powidoki by Zbigniew Libera and Pocztówki z Auschwitz by Paweł Szypulski) are using authentic photographs to initialize the discussion about trivialization of image, removing it from its original context and, at the same time, “blunting” the sensitivity of the recipient. The other two works (Auschwitz, co ja tu robię by Mikołaj Grynberg and Miejsca nieparzyste by Elżbieta Janicka) are suspended between conversation and silence (two classic poles of memory about the Holocaust). All of these works are disputing with “fixed” models and imaginary experiences, deconstructing pathos, they are talking about the blurring memories and manipulating with memory, about competition of different historic narrations and attempts at overtaking the past, passing the traumatic experiences of the war and the Holocaust to the next generations.
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Exhibition review: “Railroad Vision”. New view of the relationships between railway and photography, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, March, 5th – June, 23rd, 2002. Digitalized and reedited material
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In environmental communication, audience engagement is an essential prerequisite for achieving persuasive aims. This article responds to recent interest in visual storytelling and emotionalization – purposeful display and elicitation of emotions – as engagement techniques. A case study of the 2020 Global Biodiversity Festival – part online science festival, part fundraising event – provides evidence of how these techniques are employed in environmental communication for biodiversity conservation. Informed by scholarship on affect, emotion, visual rhetoric, and environmental communication, the case study analysis shows how visual representations of nature, mediated experiences of nature, and accompanying narration orient festival audiences toward specific ways of seeing and feeling that foreground emotional commitments and draw audiences into potentially transformative encounters. The visual rhetoric and affective dimensions of the festival’s website, virtual fi eld trips, and multimodal presentations focus attention, create moments of connection, and call audiences to action. The case study analysis also reveals how the festival, planned in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, treats this crisis as a kairotic moment for encouraging awareness, care, and pro-environmental behaviors.
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This publication is part of a family history which is dedicated to Todor Slavov Doychev who has fallen on the Dobrudzha Front during the First World War. The interest in this issue was arisen by a family photography and by the stories of some relatives. My personal motivation plays a leading role here – to seek out all the available information about this man in order to keep a promise I had given.
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In this article the Author presents the project of the illustration of this review with the various pictures, collected frompersonal and institutional archives. It also makes a theoretical analysis of the phenomena of the photography and characterizesthe “light-captured moments” by this ever-changing art.
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This article analyses the visual materials of an interwar Hungarian monthly magazine, the Harangszó (Bell Gong) thataddressed mainly the catholic Hungarian women with peasant background. Piecing together photographs and relatednarratives of this women’s magazine, the article off ers a short insight into the interwar social history and identity constructionsof the Transylvanian Hungarian minority. My aim is to identify diff erent types of visual representations of the contemporarywomen, highlighting two major directions of these representations in relation to identity formation. On the one hand thisweekly supported the community level identity processes characteristic to the interwar period; on the other hand the samevisual materials contested some core aspects this process.
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The name of Károly Feleki became known in Transylvania due to his numerous posters, caricatures, photos and book covers which he began working on in the 1970’s. From 1991 on, his name was associated w
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This article is the first initial outline of the history of Polish wedding photography from the first half of the 1860s till the present day. It focuses mostly on the analysis of poses and arrangements of such photographs, beginning with the earliest ones in which the bridegroom and the bride often appear separately, through the photographs of newly wedded couples from various milieus (aristocratic, gentry, bourgeois and peasant) to those from present times which are more coherent from a sociological perspective. Digitalized and reedited material
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Report from the research project carried out by the Town Museum in Wadowice in 2017-2019 as part of the „Folk and traditional culture” program with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
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Report from the project implemented by the Town Museum in Wadowice in 2019 as part of the „Patriotyzm Jutra” program, co-financed by the Polish History Museum in Warsaw.
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The main goal of the article is to describe and analyse the artistic practice of the American artist Sharon Lockhart as well as her works created with the participation of children and young adults. The materials studied herein are the documentation of her activities, interviews, and texts accompanying exhibitions. A particular attention is paid to the projects made in Poland, especially those created with Milena, a teenage girl from a poor area of Łódź, and her friends from the Youth Sociotherapy Centre in Rudzienko. In the article, the artist’s statements are confronted with a formal analysis of her projects. With the use of such secondary sources as cultural, anthropological, art, and childhood studies literature, Lockhart’s artworks are described and interpreted in the context of creating the child’s image, of the young girls’ participation in art projects, and of the author’s method of work itself, which she calls ‘etnographic.’ The precise and interdisciplinary research shows superficiality of this pedagogical and emancipatory method, including using the girls to evoke a specific mood in the audience. From the perspective of art studies, Lockhart’s works, however, may be interpreted as an aesthetic story about a meeting with and an attempt to get to know the Other.
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Када погледам фотографију на којем се грче два лица, мушкарца и жене, које никада нисам видио, препознајем у нестидљивој исказивости њиховог бола изразе својих родитеља. Колико су често плакали, колико често су животне недаће мирноћу њихових лица искривљавале у ужасну гримасу патње постављам себи питање, a посматрајући призор уловљен у једном безазленом тренутку несремности, изненада схватам да овакве фотографије у породичном албуму нема.
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The article deals with the reproduction of authoritative visual stereotypes. Despite their explicative specifics, resulting from their inherent interpretative and stylistic originality, visual „readings“ retain their reliable recognition.
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