The article aims to present the results of the analysis of journalistic photography dedicated to Smolensk air crash. The article contains the analysis of images from different segments of the Polish press: newspapers, ...

Contemporary folklore studies use photographs, especially family snapshots, to conduct narrative interviews in the course of a field work. They treat photography, which has broken the monopoly of spoken word in traditional ...

A term "photo-text" emphasizes a contemporary change in visual culture researches, where photography is a link between a photographed object and its cultural meaning. In a book titled “Phototextuality” Andrea Noble and ...

The article presents the technology of eyetracking and the possibilities of using it in computer analysis of the perception of images in a photograph. The traditional method of reading emotions observed in a photograph ...

The reflection on the theory of interpretation described in this article is based on the text “The Third Meaning” by Roland Barthes. Analyzing photographs from the Eisenstein’s films Barthes tries to name a moment of ...

What is death in contemporary world? “Faked”, multiplied by movies and games, it becomes standard, it doesn’t frighten. In contemporary world the second type of death is taboo. It is pushed out of consciousness. Man ...

Since we have handed over the manufacturing process to machines, the art-photography reaches the limit where creation is identified with cropping. The article essentially focuses on works by Georges Rousse, who can hardly ...

The aim of the article is to investigate a film poster as a marketing message in 1990–2010. 1990 marks a borderline in Polish culture. However, after years of monopoly, Polish films disappeared from cinemas. Thus, there ...