Photographologic Constellations, or “My Seeing of Someone Else’s Seeing”
Marta Leśniakowska
marta.lesniakowska@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9847-6765
Abstract
The text is a review of the volume Pisanie i czytanie (o) fotografii – odkrywcy, klasycy, obrazoburcy [Writing and Reading (about) Photography: Explorers, Classics, Iconoclasts] (2023) by Piotr Zawojski. The articles collected in this book are devoted to selected texts from the photographologic canon, and concern photography in artistic-theoretical practices. Genre-wise, this is a publication on artistic doctrines and axio- and ontological theories. The author’s subjective choice is representative of narrativism. The interpretations are conducted from a preposterous perspective and (re)present the present time of the engaged author, which fits in with the post-criticality of contemporary humanities and their affectivity. Such meta-historical and meta-theoretical view allows for a post-critical rethinking of established problems of photography and poses a key question: what does reading the canon give us today? And the book’s meta-metareading allows us to unveil the essence of a post-critical “hermeneutics of suspicion” (as defined by Rita Felski), whose aim is a new reading. According to the reviewer, the tool here is scientific essayism, whose anti-systemic, emotionally involved form shows what affective, ergo effective writing/ reading is and what uses it has today.
Keywords:
photography, photographology, narrativism, preposterousness, metatheory, post-criticismReferences
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Authors
Marta Leśniakowskamarta.lesniakowska@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9847-6765
Art historian and critic, Professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, university lecturer, visiting professor. She conducts research from a transdisciplinary and anthropological-cultural perspective in the fields of theory and history of architecture, visual culture of the 19th and 21st centuries, methodology of art history, and new art history in the perspective of the new humanities. Author of ten books and numerous scientific texts, as well as articles in the field of art criticism and dissemination of visual culture. Promoter of ten doctorates in the discipline of Art Sciences and more than a hundred master’s students. She teaches at 1st and 2nd level studies, doctoral studies, and postgraduate studies. Member of expert and review teams of, among others, the Ministry of Education and Science/Ministry of Science and Higher Education (in the programmes Diamond Grant, Pearls of Science, Juventus, National Programme for the Development of the Humanities), Foundation for Polish Science, advisory teams to the President of the City of Warsaw for the Cultural Heritage of Warsaw and Historical Art Workshops; member of programme boards of many cultural institutions (including, until 2017, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art) and foundations related to artistic culture. Curator of ten art exhibitions, especially of photography. Juror of exhibitions and competitions, i.a., at the Theatre Institute and the National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning. She held scholarships from the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Awarded the Bene Merenti medal for outstanding teaching achievements (2021) and the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2014). In addition to her academic work, she practises photography art; her works are in private collections at home and abroad, and in the National Museum in Wrocław, and the Museum in Bydgoszcz.
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