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2022 | 118 | 2 | 95-103

Article title

Fotografia żywi się różnicami

Content

Title variants

EN
When photography feeds on differences

Languages of publication

Abstracts

EN
The aim of this article is to conduct a critical analysis of the human-bonding and community-building functions of photography. While photography has contributed to social integration in many ways, it is also partially responsible for the shrinking of the intersubjective community based on shared social values and meanings. More often than on similarities photography is increasingly focusing on differences, deviations, and exceptions. This is what it is mostly valued for and considered worthy of interest. However, knowing that photography can also lead to social disintegration, some people are beginning to approach it with a growing distrust and try to marginalise it, both symbolically and functionally. Between these two extremes there emerges another position. It includes using photography to build weak and shallow communities that are not particularly demanding of their members. While they support general integration, the downside is that this process is largely concentrated on secondary or even tertiary issues.

Year

Volume

118

Issue

2

Pages

95-103

Physical description

Dates

published
2022

Contributors

  • Wydział Socjologii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki
2157571

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_26112_kw_2022_118_07
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