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Afterlives of Photographs: The Artist’s Point of View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2017
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As a comic book artist who combines surrealistic and realistic imagery, I am often forced to use different types of photographs. Some of them are just typical references for artists—anatomy, poses, gesture, facial expressions. I prefer, however, to use old photographs from family archives, documentary books, and vintage postcards, in addition to numerous photographs found on the web. I enjoy putting together and mixing various kinds of visuals because every element has its own ghost from the past and the sum of these ghosts, including some added from my imagination, gives me a sense of fullness in my graphic stories.
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- Critical Forum: The Afterlife of Photographs
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- Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2017
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1. I would like to thank Peter Pastor, Harriet Murav, Ewa Stańczyk and Slavic Review for giving me a reason to eventually identify the old historic book that belonged to my mother. It took me some time to find it: Polevoi, Boris, Simonov, Konstantin, and Trachmann, Michael, Wyzwolenie (Liberation), Pavlenko, N. G., ed., (Moscow, 1974; Polish translation, Moscow: 1975)Google Scholar. I would like to thank Ewa Stańczyk and Ola Waliszewska for their English corrections.
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4. Ibid., 89.