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The general problem of shaping the human person, i.e. the question of cultura animi, is examined in the context of the links between human beings and culture that should be treated as a consequence of the development of the visual media. In this sense, these reflections represent an iconic turn in the reflection on culture. The fact that natural landscape has acquired the status of cultural landscape, the visual representations of this phenomenon and the ability to read them are the basic issues that allow us to better describe today’s experience of nature and, as a result, to better understand ourselves.
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Looking for alternative lifestyles, building one’s own identity within subcultures are a consequence of the condition of contemporary Central European societies, a cultural reaction to radical changes in the 1990s. This phenomenon becomes relevant in the course of political transformations. The subcultures functioning in Czechoslovakia from the 1950s on, were persecuted by the totalitarian system characterised by ideological and social conformism. The post-1989 political transformation has expanded their scope and changed their nature. An alternative lifestyle does not mean only a rejection of political determinants or cultural heritage. Contemporary subcultures reflecting specific values as well as psychosocial processes occurring within various communities constitute their expression. In the Czech Republic subcultures previously presented primarily within the framework of social marginalisation processes are presented today as urban neotribes with liquid identities significantly shaped by the new media. The functioning of individuals within subcultural communities, which until recently depended on their activity in their free time wherever they lived and was linked to the stage of their development, has been replaced by the recognition of values attracting the individuals to a specific subculture. Changes in cultural transmission and social relations force us to adopt a serious approach to alternative life models in the creation of the contemporary paradigm of culture.
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The album entitled The Lyric of the Pigsty (How Animals Depart Our World) presents the world of humans and animals, their lesser brothers, as well as the links between humans in state of nature and landscape in the late 20th century Czech countryside. Warmth, full understanding, perverse distance but also humour are all qualities that can be associated with the photographs taken by Jindřich Štreit, one of the greatest Czech photographers-documentarians of international renown. The selection of photographs is complemented by insightful commentary provided by Jiří Siostrzonek, a sociologist of culture and visuality from the Institute of Creative Photography of the Silesian University in Opava, who analyses the mutual relations between animals and humans in the Czech everyday reality of those days from the point of view of a scholar. Siostrzonek regards photography as the basic source for studying and describing culture; he collaborates with Štreit on a regular basis.
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