https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.79-117
https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306303
Photography and Literature From the Literary Peripheries
Plamen Shulikov
Shumen University “Bishop Konstantin Preslavski”, Bulgaria
pshulikov@abv.bg
The functional unity of the media environment at the beginning of the twentieth century gives rise to adjustments in the institutional fields of culture, which otherwise live in real cooperation. The picture of the vast territories of mass culture is particularly fluid. The present text examines boundary “violations” between literature and photography, which manifest themselves through the exchange of value and style ideas, precipitated in commonly used clichés. How do literary and photographic notions of image realism interact? Are they able to take autonomous life directions? Here we deliberately select paraliterary uses undertaken by important Bulgarian artists (Vazov, Chudomir), and by unknown commissioned poets or advertisers, by photographers and reporters. We fixate on the existence of verbal and visual genres that inhabit the territories of the aesthetic periphery: cartoon, doodle, pattern, sketch, photo portrait, essay.
Keywords: caricature, scribble, pattern, sketch, photo portrait, daguerreotype, panorama, sketch, photography, literary periphery, paraliterature
For citation: Shulikov, Pl. Photography and Literature. From the Literary Peripheries. // The Literature, Year XVIII, 2024, Issue 33. Sofia: Univerisity Press “St. Kliment Ohridski”. (In Bulgarian)
About the author: Plamen Shulikov is a professor of journalism at the Shumen University “Ep. Konstantin Preslavsky”. A graduate of Moscow University, where in 1989 he defended his thesis on literary theory. He worked with names such as Pospelov, Meletinsky, Gasparov, P. Nikolaev and others. He dealt with Russian classical literature, taught on Methodology of Literary Education, gave lectures on History of Bulgarian literature and culture of the 20th century. His habilitations are devoted to topics such as: Rhetoric, classical and photographic rhetoric, theory and history of advertising, theory and history of photography. He was a lecturer at Nisantash University – Istanbul, Turkey. His scientific and professional interests extend to topics such as: cinema and visual arts, literary theory, media studies, journalism, genre studies, creative writing, photography practice, art history. He has published a total of 9 scientific books and one independent collection of poems. Among them are titles such as: “Art and advertising. Industrial canon and cultural branding. Formation of the native nobrow in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century.” Varna, Slovesnost, 2011 (monograph), 347 p. “Σήματ αναγνοντος Recognition, cognition, media”, Shumen: UI, 310 p. “Paraliterature. Textology, sociology, mediators” (Monograph co-authored with E. Borisova, Ya. Milchakov), Faber, V. Tarnovo, 2009, 307 p. “The amazing photography” and its amazing XIX century. Theoretical reflections on photography”, Faber, V. Tarnovo, 2016, 182 p. There are 12 solo and collective photo exhibitions. Permanent member of editorial boards of publications: Series “Public Communications”, ed. of КЖМК, ХХ, ШУ, from 2011 (referenced in SEOL); The editorial board of the Online magazine: Newmedia21.eu/ Media of the 21st century. Online publication for research, analysis, criticism. He is a member of Publication Integrity & Ethics. Permanent member of the international photography jury of the FODAR Foundation: PHODAR, 12 National Contest, https://www.phodar.net/.
