Hysterical Photography. Through Affect toward Recovering the World
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This article seeks to rehabilitate hysteria as a potentially constructive affect capable of restoring the subject’s relation to the world within contemporary photographic practices. Its point of departure is a juxtaposition of Luiza Nader’s concept of affective art history with the phenomenology of psychopathology developed by Georges Charbonneau, Thomas Fuchs, and Mira Marcinów. The author proposes the notion of the hysterical gesture, understood as a set of emotional and performative actions whose heightened theatricality aims to capture the attention of the Other. An analysis of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills and Samuel Fosso’s Tati series presents photography as a medium particularly susceptible to hysteria. The article also asks what kind of world is recovered through the hysterical gesture.
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Wydawca „Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Arte et Educatione” jest upoważniony do korzystania oraz do rozpowszechniana wszystkich opublikowanych w czasopiśmie materiałów na podstawie umowy licencji niewyłącznej nieograniczonej w czasie - zawartej uprzednio na czas nieoznaczony każdorazowo z autorem/ką konkretnego utworu na określonych w tamtejszej umowie polach eksploatacji.