Jozef Sedlák – Communication Today https://communicationtoday.sk Media, marketing, communication Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:33:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://communicationtoday.sk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-ct-32x32.png Jozef Sedlák – Communication Today https://communicationtoday.sk 32 32 Silent Absolutions https://communicationtoday.sk/silent-absolutions/ Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:57:00 +0000 https://communicationtoday.sk/?p=3863 ABSTRACT:
The study is a theoretical-visual essay that addresses the contexts of interconnection of documentary photography in wider societal relationships – cultural, social, religious, philosophical, and pedagogical. The sources of the study are the opinions of key philosophers related to the sphere of human being and the participation of a person in human society, service to others, egoism, altruism, existence, borderline situations, and problematisation of happiness. The core of the study comprises an analysis and interpretation of approaches (within the photographic project entitled Damnatio memoriae – Condemnation of Memory) and is divided into several parts: The Stories in Images, Images of Awakening and Self-Discovery, The Inner Memory and Cultural Information, Almost Home and Podolínec or About Loneliness within Ourselves. Institutionally, instrumentally, and biblically, the study is a reflection on an image of stories of the religious congregation of Redemptorists, childhood dreams, historical and cultural continuity, difficult messages on the meaning of suffering, political persecution, and finding new identities and spiritual perspectives. It is a story of human wandering that implies a journey from the individual to the whole, a journey of breaking boundaries and stereotypes, a journey from the profane to the sacral. Through the medium of photography and their theoretical attitudes, the authors build a narrative of personal experience that has become a story of rises and falls, but also a dramatic turnaround, where a human being becomes a different person.

KEY WORDS:
altruism, documentary photography, faith, humanism, iconography, mystagogy, narrative, orphanage, postmodernism, solitude, stereotype, transcendence, visuality

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]]> Príbuznosti a odlišnosti https://communicationtoday.sk/pribuznosti-a-odlisnosti/ Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:20:43 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=646 The paper supports the search of space for interpretation of a photographic image in the teaching process and specifies the typical features of the photography medium such as identity, identification of image, fiction in the reality of an image and personal story. The photography can by simultaneously perceived as a technical record of reality, as the production and exchange of the image meaning or as a unique personal story – intention of the author. The main aim of the article is to point to the clarity and ambiguity of the space of photography medium, which are very important to be defined and named in the teaching process. The presented text should be under-stood more like a logical coexistence of connections of described relations of the photography medium within arts, which inevitably interfere in similarities and differences. Sometimes they are even not able to understand each other. Anyway, they make up the basis of photography medium. My intention is the effort for legitimate and more existential thinking about the canon and exceptions emerging from the interpretation of photographic image, which in this case presents the principle of uniqueness and which is characterized by the space of story´s emotion.

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]]> The Similarity And Differentiations https://communicationtoday.sk/the-similarity-and-differentiations/ Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:19:16 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=639 The paper supports the search of space for interpretation of a photographic image in the teaching process and specifies the typical features of the photography medium such as identity, identification of image, fiction in the reality of an image and personal story. The photography can by simultaneously perceived as a technical record of reality, as the production and exchange of the image meaning or as a unique personal story – intention of the author. The main aim of the article is to point to the clarity and ambiguity of the space of photography medium, which are very important to be defined and named in the teaching process. The presented text should be under-stood more like a logical coexistence of connections of described relations of the photography medium within arts, which inevitably interfere in similarities and differences. Sometimes they are even not able to understand each other. Anyway, they make up the basis of photography medium. My intention is the effort for legitimate and more existential thinking about the canon and exceptions emerging from the interpretation of photographic image, which in this case presents the principle of uniqueness and which is characterized by the space of story´s emotion.

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