The “Salt of the Earth” documentary film by Wim Wenders as an implementation of the „text within a text” rhetorical strategy

• Authors: Bogumiła Fiołek-Lubczyńska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Wim Wenders’s report is devoted to the output of the world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado. The presentation of his works in the documentary employed the text within a text composition, or rather „photography within a documentary”. The director emphasised the photographs and the statements by the photographer in such a way that the viewers could learn about Salgado as the author of his works and as a human, a humanist concerned about the fate of contemporary human beings. The analysis and the interpretation of the report enabled me to reflect theoretically on the definition and the specificity of photography.

Keywords

EN

Report on art; rhetoric of a documentary; topos of the face; anthropology; ethos of a director

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 5

Dates

published

2018-02-08

Contributors

author

Bogumiła Fiołek-Lubczyńska

Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.43.15