Photography Games
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https://doi.org/10.18778/2300-1690.22.02Keywords:
photography and propaganda, the agency of the photographic image, photography as interaction and game, power , autonomyAbstract
The article is an attempt to compare two photographs: the famous Migrant Mother portrait by Dorothea Lange and the portrait of a work leader taken (in 1977) by Zdzislaw Pacholski. Both images are treated in the article as a pretext for presenting photography as a kind of game that the photographer plays with the photographed and that the viewers of the photographs play with the pictures they see. According to the author, this game is based on distrust. Its result – when one manages to track down various manipulations and issues that were supposed to remain hidden – is, on the one hand, cognitive satisfaction, but on the other, successive depreciation of photography.
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