Zaangażowanie jako metoda. Badania artystyczne w najnowszych dokumentalnych publikacjach fotograficznych

• Authors: Michał Sita

Title variants

EN

Engagement as a method. Art-based research in the latest publications of documentary photography

Abstracts

EN

Photography emerging from the documentary tradition has continued to evolve over the recent years, nearing the scientific practices applied in the study of the social and community-based dimensions of culture. Photographers conduct experiments in the social space, reflect on the interactions and dependencies that they intentionally create, and construct languages of communication subordinated to the interpersonal relationships in which they operate. As authors of their art-based research, they are in charge of both methodology of analysis (by adapting the tools employed by the humanities and social sciences) and the ways in which their results are presented and included in the social mainstream as artistic interventions, collective practices, and photography publications. Given that the latter are the subject of this article, it focuses on three selected publications and identifies engagement as a central category for methods used by artists to establish a relationship with the studied social reality, influence it, and create knowledge about it. Engagement, in both its versions – as an attempt to have an impact on the studied social reality and as a method of intentional relationship building within a community, carries a significant learning potential, allowing us to look anew at the role of photography in qualitative social research.

Keywords

PL

fotografia; badania artystyczne; zaangażowanie; książka fotograficzna; antropologia wizualna

EN

photography; art-based research; engagement; photo book; visual anthropology

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 118
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 106-125

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Michał Sita

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2022.118.08

Biblioteka Nauki

2157568