Filipovich, S.

Isakova, Y.

Lashuk, N.

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bodies. Sally’s view on the world is nonstandard but all of us know that beauty in the eye of 
beholder. 
One of the young Belarussian photographers – Tatiana Lisovskaya – also touches upon the 
theme of corporeality in one of her projects entitled "The Naked" [5]. Most of the photographs 
are focused on a definite part of our body, half of which is always covered, hidden under 
clothing. In this way the main idea of "The Naked" series is to show the process of opposition 
between our aspiration to reveal ourselves and the suppression of this desire by our "collective 
self". The photographer uses the eye-level angle showing that this problem is characteristic of 
each of us. 
Tatiana Lisovskaya uses the naked bodies, tries to bring us this idea, saying 'The best way 
of attracting people's attention is to show undressed characterse, who become the objects of 
exploitation in the cinema, Internet and advertising. And there are a thin line between art, 
pornography and earning the money' [6]. 
We considered the projects of different photographers from the standpoint of interaction 
between the author's idea, tools of expressing these ideas and the perception of the interpreter 
using the example of depicting physical bodies in photography (corporality). Interpreting the 
corporality, we should distinguish corporeality, the goals of its use and the context, which will 
help us to understand better the relevance of the use. 
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http://www.claudinedoury.com/en/portfolio_artek.htm. – Date of access: 1.06.2014. 
3. Tuminas, D. How I become an adult. Claudine Dory’s Teenagers / D. Tuminas // Foto&video 
[Electronic resource]. – 2010. –Mode of access: http://www.foto-video.ru/practice/pract/54637/. – Date of 
access:30.05.2014. 
4. Sally Mann [Electronic resource] / Gagosian Gallery – Mode of access: 
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann – Date of access: 31.05.2014. 
5. Tanya taking photograps. Naked [Electronic resource] / Tatsyana Lisovskaya. – 2012. – Mode of 
access: http://www.tanya.by/photosets/38#intro. – Date of access: 01.06.2014 
6. Bubich, O. Vitebsk photographs: silence in dialogue with itself / Znyata. The main belarussian 
fotoportal. – Znyata, 2014. – Mode of access: http://www.znyata.com/o-foto/vitebsk.html. – Data of 
access: 01.06.2014 
Y. Isakova, N. Lashuk, S. Filipovich  
Belorussian State University 
CORPORALITY IN PHOTOGRAPHY 
Photography as a specific form of communication have a sender – photographer, a 
message – picture, and recipient. And there are a noise and interference in the way of 
communication. We give our subjective meaning to any word or phrase. The same also things 
happen in photography. 
Photographer produce an idea and create a project, and this idea well be interpreted by the 
audience. Therefore, many interesting contradictions can be found in this area. 
The problem of inconsistency between the photographer’s idea and people’s perception is 
also shown in corporality in the photo. 
Corporality it’s a body, which exposed to social impact. It is specific sphere between soul 
and body [1]. 
We have considered the most famous project of french photographer Claudine Dory 
“Artec” [2]. There are a new vision of the camp in this work. If we explore these photos, we will 
find a lot of wavy and horizontal lines, which tell us a “calm and soft” story about children on 
this photos. 
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The question of growing up – is one of the key questions for Claudine. 
«I’m very interested in changes, connected with the time, and how they are influence all 
people and especially young people” [3]. This is the main idea of the project Artek. 
But this project take part in a large scandal connected with pedophilia and violence in the 
camp. Ukrainian psychologists state that Dory took a series of photos for “adults who are proune 
to pedophilia”. 
As a result we see how photographer’s idea can be distort. 
Now we consider creativity of Sally Mann. Why we should talk about this woman? 
Today Sally Mann is one of the best photographer in USA. She has some prestigious titles 
and premiums. She was “photographer of the year” in 2001 (Times). Her works are famous (some 
of them you can see in New York's Museum of Modern Art). She takes photos in pictorialism 
style. But she is controver photographer because children’s corporeality was the main means of 
self representation in her photos. She works with her own children and their bodies visualize 
some serious social ideas. We can see in little children our vices, passions, sexuality, loneliness, 
dreams, desires, beauty and it is dissonance (children’s simplicity and adult’s qualities). Children 
are “mirror” of today's world [4]. 
One of the most famous album is “Immediate family” published in 1992. This album 
included many photos with nude children and therefore provoked many negative reviews. But the 
main idea of these works was to show adult’s qualities in children’s bodies. 
Sally’s view on the world is nonstandard but all of us know that beauty lives in watcher’s 
eyes. 
One of the young Belarussian photographers – Tatsyana Lisovskaya – also touches upon 
the theme of corporeality in one of her projects 'Naked' [5]. Most of the photographs are focused 
on the definite part of our body, half of which is always covered, hidden under clothing and all it 
shown in a body with a help of gestures. In this way the main idea of 'Naked' is to show the 
process of opposition between ours aspiration to reveal and suppression its desire by ours 
collective I. Author with a help of eye-level angle pointed out that this problem peculiar to each 
of us. 
Tatsyana Lisovskaja using the naked bodies, tries to bring to us this idea, saying 'The sure 
version to attract people is to show Undressed people, who became the objects of exploitation in 
the cinema, Internet and advertising. And there are a thin line between art, pornography and 
earning the money' [6]. 
We considered the projects of different photographers from standpoint of interaction of 
author's idea, tools of expressing these ideas and perception of interpreter using the example of 
corporeality. Interpreting the corporeality, we should divide corporeality, the goals of its using 
and the context of its using, what will helps us to better understand the relevancy of its using. 
____________ 
1. Academic [Electronic resource] / Encyclopedia of Cultural Studies – Mode of access: 
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_culture/1123/Телесность – Date of access: 31.05.2014. 
2. Сlaudinedoury [Electronic resource] / Artec. – Mode of access: 
http://www.claudinedoury.com/en/portfolio_artek.htm. – Date of access: 1.06.2014. 
3. Tuminas, D. How I become an adult. Claudine Dory’s Teenagers / D. Tuminas // Foto&video 
[Electronic resource]. – 2010. –Mode of access: http://www.foto-video.ru/practice/pract/54637/. – Date of 
access:30.05.2014. 
4. Sally Mann [Electronic resource] / Gagosian Gallery – Mode of access: 
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann – Date of access: 31.05.2014. 
5. Tanya taking photograps. Naked [Electronic resource] / Tatsyana Lisovskaya. – 2012. – Mode of 
access: http://www.tanya.by/photosets/38#intro. – Date of access: 01.06.2014 
6. Vitebsk Photographs: silence in dialogue with itself / Znyata. The main belarussian fotoportal. – 
Znyata, 2014. – Mode of access: http://www.znyata.com/o-foto/vitebsk.html. – Data of access: 
01.06.2014 
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