Indexical Realism during Socialism: Documenting and Remembering the 'Everyday Realities' of Late Socialist Romania through Photographs

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ZMV.iT60Sp" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ZMV.iT60Sp</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2020.1824723" target="_blank" >10.1080/17514517.2020.1824723</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Indexical Realism during Socialism: Documenting and Remembering the 'Everyday Realities' of Late Socialist Romania through Photographs

Original language description

This paper focuses on photography of everyday life in late socialist Romania, analyzing the photographic production of artists and vernacular photographs from private scrapbooks and collections. On a theoretical level, it disentangles questions concerning the production of ideological images; the political dimension of the act of photographing/documenting everyday life; the relationship between photography and cultural memory; the question of the forbidden gaze and the &apos;reality&apos; of the visual document. The argument is that realism can be seen as a proclivity of certain kinds of photographs rather than inextricably associated with the medium of photography as such (the so-called &apos;indexical realism&apos;). Supported by an in-depth analysis of visual sources and semi-structured interviews with visual artists active during those years, this paper highlights the relationship between photography and cultural hegemony and zooms in on the photograph&apos;s mnemonic abilities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Photography &amp; Culture

ISSN

1751-4517

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

5-21

UT code for WoS article

000581042600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85092758308