[Commlist] CfP · Photographs post-truths: private poetics vs political claims?

Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts

Call for papers – Special Issue

Photographs post-truths: private poetics vs political claims?

Deadline: June 17th 2021

[No payment from the authors will be required.]

Communication and Media Studies scholars are welcome.

Editors: Carlos Lobo (UCP-EA, CITAR) & Paulo Catrica (UNL, IHC).

WEBSITE > https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/callforpapers

Seemingly in our post-truth era, the drifts of contemporary photography 
practices operate on a global scale, trespassing local and specific 
cultural settings. Rooted within a plurality of historical genres, 
mostly Western, i.e. documentary, conceptual, street photography, 
post-modern, or ‘fine art’, these visual paradigms are instinctively 
used without reclaiming any critical stance.

One of the prevailing trends is the depiction of the world as a 
self-portraiture – ‘from my porch’, as a fragmentary visual essay 
inscribed with poetic significance. A certain return to the modern 
‘beautiful photograph’ opposed to the depiction of the world ‘outside’ 
with its critical and political implications.

To frame this debate we recover, John Schott 1975’s aphorism, ‘what a 
picture is of and what it is about’ ? By then, William Jenkins 
commented, comparing Ed Ruscha’s photographs to Schott Route 66 Motels: 
“… they [Ruscha’s pictures] are not statements about the world through 
art, they are statements about art through the world".

Engaging with the discussion of the photographs' ability to be 
ideological committed, and considering that myth of representation was 
wiped out with the rarefaction of the photographic images? We invite 
article submissions and visual essays that focus on photography 
contemporary practices in order to critically discuss the hypothetical 
quarrel between poetics and politics.

+ Open Call for audiovisual essay submissions (always open)

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