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The Everyday in Humphrey Spender’s Worktown Mass Observation Photographs

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Bruś T.
Anglica Wratislaviensia
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2013
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issue 51
9 – 17
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My proposition to approach Humphrey Spender’s Worktown photographs (1937–1938) of urban life in an ordinary town of Bolton, Lancashire takes heed of Georg Simmel’s assumption that the relationship to space is the condition of the relationship to people and the symbol of this relationship. The new instruments of vision applied in the nineteen-thirties cultural texts privileged the everyday, the common place, and the ubiquitous ordinary person. In Bolton, Humphrey Spender’s zoom lenses focused on particular spatial structures of social associations like doorsteps and street corners. In my paper I show that Spender’s distinctive photo-documents do not correspond to the anthropological concerns of Mass Observation, a hybrid English research organization which employed a mixture of literature and social science as a method of observing, with a nation-wide panel of voluntary informants, British life in the thirties. Spender, a highly accomplished Mass Observation photographer, made Bolton visible not as a connecting place of the everyday, but as a separating place of passivity and spatial intervals. Thus, contrary to popular opinions, we should evaluate the significance of Spender’s photographs in terms of how they uphold the distinction between the extraordinary and the ordinary.
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Facepoeia: The Author Becoming a Photographic Subject. The Example of Tadeusz Różewicz

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Bruś T.
Anglica Wratislaviensia
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2018
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issue 56
35 - 44
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This paper reflects on the visual practices involving the circulation of portraits of authors in their publications, and in public sphere. The photographic portrait of the author interjects the belief that the presence of the author through and in the image familiarizes and intensifies its subject’s presence and declares the author’s identity. As a visual paratext, a portrait becomes an autobiographical space of self-invention and self-construction. I wish to illustrate these processes by focusing on Tadeusz Różewicz’s (1921–2014) complex ways of accessing visibility and manners of “fixing” his identity in the collaborative work he produced with the photographer Adam Hawałej under the title Rubbish Dump (2015).
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Essay, essaying, essayism and the experence of reading

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Bruś T.
Kształcenie Językowe
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2011
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vol. 9(19)
69-80
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The paper proposes to engage questions of essayistic ways of embracing the experience of reading in Michel Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, and Elizabeth Bowen. A presentation of the essayists’ personal and critical staging of experience of reading reveals integrational, polyphonic relations inscribed in reading experience in which books and words mean more than they say. Essaying especially childhood books, the authors acknowledge being essayed by them. Reading for these readers, readers who admit they spent their lives in the “orgy of reading,” is always an intersubjective experience related to living, re-reading and reviving memories of previous readings and feelings connected with them. I argue after Korhonen that such projects betray a strong desire for “ultimate fullness of experience” and an “imaginary personal satisfaction.”
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