Obraz fotograficzny – między archiwum a pozorem. Fotografie w „nożyku profesora” Tadeusza Różewicza
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2014
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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A photographic image – between an archive and a semblance. Photographs in Tadeusz Różewicz’s The Professor’s Little Knife
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This article explores the issue of postmemory and secondary witnessing as dealt with in Tadeusz
Różewicz’s 2002 poem The Professor’s Little Knife. The paper presents two photographs which
refer to the problem of the Holocaust’s representation and its limits. The first picture comes from
the collection of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; however, the author concealed its origins
and changed its appearance so that it resembled a retro nude photograph. The second one is
a raw, non-stylized picture of a knife that belonged to Professor Porębski during imprisonment in
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. By using various interpretation methods, such as the
deconstruction of an image or empathic reading, the author of this article examines the limits and
consequences of treating a photograph as “spectral evidence”.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, 2014, nr 21, s. 195-208
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978-83-232-2740-3
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1644-6763