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Photography and its Many Faces

The social role of photography, copyright, photography as a conceptual art medium, photography from the socialist-realist period, ethnological and architecture photography, as well as writings on photography and its gender aspect, observed on individual contributions or as syntheses of various aspects or entire periods, in accordance with their multiple layers, contradictions and controversies – these are some of the plentiful visions of the appearance and existence of photography represented in this issue. The breadth of topics, areas and periods covered here shows the extent to which photography as a medium is susceptible to the reading of cultural and social phenomena, which it reflects perhaps more clearly than other media. The articles come from various research areas, and most of them apply the methodology and results from several disciplines – history, art history, architecture, design and art criticism, ethnology, visual and cultural studies – which demonstrates the interdisciplinary focus in this volume, which we structured using the logic “from the individual to the general.” While the first block of articles includes papers that deal with aspects from individual oeuvres, the second block examines certain periods, areas, and genres in a synthetic fashion.

photography, social role of photography conceptual photography, gender aspect of photography

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