Open AccessThe “Salt of the Earth” documentary film by Wim Wenders as an implementation of the „text within a text” rhetorical strategy
Author(s) -
Bogumiła Fiołek-Lubczyńska
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
acta universitatis lodziensis. folia litteraria polonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-1908
pISSN - 1505-9057
DOI - 10.18778/1505-9057.43.15
Subject(s) - rhetorical question , interpretation (philosophy) , presentation (obstetrics) , photography , humanism , art , rhetoric , literature , visual arts , art history , philosophy , linguistics , medicine , theology , radiology
Wim Wenders’s report is devoted to the output of the world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado. The presentation of his works in the documentary employed the text within a text composition, or rather „photography within a documentary”. The director emphasised the photographs and the statements by the photographer in such a way that the viewers could learn about Salgado as the author of his works and as a human, a humanist concerned about the fate of contemporary human beings. The analysis and the interpretation of the report enabled me to reflect theoretically on the definition and the specificity of photography.