KONSTELACJE FOTOGRAFOLOGICZNE KWART FILM 2024 (original) (raw)

The text Photographic Constellations, or my seeing someone else's is a critical analysis of a collection of articles by cultural studies scholar Piotr Zawojski on selected texts from the canon of photography (Baudelaire, Bernhard, Barthes, Cartier-Bresson, Sontag, Bazin, Pontremoli, Baudrillard, Derrida, Flusser, Mikuriya) and photography in artistic and theoretical practices (Hockney, Fontcuberta, Kiarostami). In terms of genre, this is a publication about artistic doctrines and axio- and ontological theories. The author's subjective choice is representative of narrativism. Interpretations are conducted from a grotesque perspective, (re)presenting the present of the author in question, which fits in with the post-criticality of contemporary human sciences and their affectivity. As metahistory and metatheory, this allows us to rethink established questions about photography in a post-critical way and poses a key question: what does reading the canon offer us today? The book's meta-metalecture reveals the essence of a post-critical 'hermeneutics of suspicion' (R. Felski), whose aim is a new reading. According to M. Lesniakowska, this tool is the scholarly essay, whose anti-systemic and emotionally engaged form shows what affective, and therefore effective, writing/reading is and what its uses are today.