Interdisciplinary journal focusing primarily on sociological, political science and historical perspectives on the issue of long-term social processes and trends, modernization, globalization tendency and impacts.
The journal creates a broader platform for researches in the historical social sciences. Epistemological field is not strictly bounded, it is also meant to overlap with civilizationalism, cultural sociology and other related fields.
Historical Sociology is Open Access Journal and all published papers are available in the archive section. Open access journal means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
Published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, cooperated with Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.
Reviewed scientific journal issued twice a year (in June and December).
The journal is abstracted and indexed in CEEOL, CEJSH, DOAJ, EBSCO, Emerging Sources Citation Index, ERIH PLUS, OAJI, recensio.net, Scopus, SSOAR, Ulrichsweb.
The journal is archived in Portico.
HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE, Vol 3 No 1 (2011), 63–76
K vývoji pojmu dokumentární fotografie
[On the Development of the Concept of Documentary Photography]
Michal Kotík
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2017.106
published online: 17. 10. 2017
abstract
This paper is concerned with the transformations of the understanding of documentary photography in the historical and social context. Every photograph, as a recording, is by its nature documentary in the original meaning of the word, and so the term documentary photography could be considered as synonymous to photography itself. Photography, taken, thanks to its qualities, primarily as an instrument of objective cognition, was from the beginning used to document social life. These photographs (i.e. of social life) began to be described as documentary for the authenticity and veracity of the photographic imaging. The concept of documentary photography then gained specific meaning. In the 1970s the truthfulness of photography began to be questioned. The understanding and acceptance of the fact that photography shows the world in its own way depending on the way of reception by the viewer then led to a new widely spread perception of the photo-documentary.
keywords: documentary photography; history of photography; social use of photography; social photography; social construction of photographic document; aesthetic function
references (20)
1. Baran, Ludvík. [1967]. Kamera zkoumá skutečnost. Praha: Interní tisk Čs. televize řada.
2. Baran, Ludvík. [2007]. Obraz jako dialog s časem. Praha: Národní informační středisko pro kulturu.
3. Barthes, Roland. [2005]. Světlá komora. Poznámka k fotografii. Praha: Agite/Fra.
4. Berger, John. [2009]. O pohledu. Praha: Agite/Fra.
5. Bazin, Andre. [1979]. Co je to film. Praha: Čs. filmový ústav.
6. Benjamin, Walter. [1979]. Dílo a jeho zdroj. Praha: Odeon.
7. Benjamin, Walter. [1999]. Malé dějiny fotografie. In. Iluminácia. Bratislava: Kaligram.
8. Bright, Susan. [2005]. Art Photography Now. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.
9. Doležal, František. [1952].Thema v nové fotografii. Praha: Osvěta.
10. Foucault, Michel. [2002]. Archeologie věděni. Praha: Herrmann & synové.
11. Kracauer, Siegfried. [1967]. Fotografie. In. Studijní materiály dramaturgie – II. Praha: int. tisk AMU.
12. Linhart, Lubomír. [1934]. Sociální fotografie. Praha: Knihovna levé fronty.
13. Mrázková, Dana. [1985]. Příběh fotografie. Praha: Mladá fronta.
14. Mukařovský, Jan. [2007]. Estetická funkce, norma a hodnota jako sociální fakty. In. Mukařovský J. Studie [I]. Brno: Host, s. 81–149.
15. Slánský, Josef. [1928]. Fotografický obzor. Praha: Český klub fotografů.
16. Solomon-Godeauová, Abigail. „Fotograf v Jeruzalémě, 1855: Auguste Salzmann a jeho doba“, s. 134. In. Karel Císař (ed.). [2004] Co je to fotografie. Praha: Herrmann & synové.
17. Sontagová, Susan. [2002]. O fotografii. Praha: Paseka.
18. Stiglitz Alfred. [1997]. Camera Work. Koln: Taschen.
19. Sztompka, Piotr. [2007]. Vizuální sociologie Fotografie jako výzkumná metoda. Praha: SLON.
20. Teige, Karel. [1925]. Film. Praha: Nakladatelství Václava Petra.
230 x 157 mm
periodicity: 2 x per year
print price: 120 czk
ISSN: 1804-0616
E-ISSN: 2336-3525
