The Photograph as Susceptible Material: An Introduction to “Reflection OR Creation” from Urszula Czartoryska’s The Artistic Adventures of Photography
In her 1965 essay “Lustro rzeczywistości czy uległe tworzywo” [mirror of reality, or submissive material], presented here in its first English translation as “Reflection or Creation,” Urszula Czartoryska investigates the photographic medium’s capacity for creative intervention. Among her case studies are Polish photographers Karol Hiller, Zbigniew Dłubak, and Fortunata Obrąpalska, who she situates as interconnected, international artists working within a context that encompasses France, Germany, and the Soviet Union. The introduction to the translation argues that Czartoryska’s approach not only sought to legitimize Polish photography within a broader history of modernism, but also created the conditions of possibility for future forms of artistic subjectivity in a socialist context.
ARTMargins, Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 147-155.
doi:10.1162/artm_a_00404
https://direct.mit.edu/artm/article/14/1/147/130984/The-Photograph-as-Susceptible-Material-An
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