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Godoy Domínguez, Mª Jesús. 2018. Disgust in Documentary Photograph. Laocoonte : revista de estética y teoría de las artes 5 : 202–216. 15 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Spanish
Place, Publisher
Universitat de València
ISBN
23868449

Abstract

This paper comes under the field of "negative emotions" examined by aesthetics; particularly, it deals with disgust, which has been ignored in modern aesthetics because of undue bodily nature as well as its limited thoughtful dimension. The analysis of this emotion has been carried out in this proposal by means of a type of image (the documentary or press photograph) which has also been undervalued in the field of aesthetics due to its inconsistency with the Kantian notion of disinterest. Particularly, the image in question is Sergei Ilnitsky's Kitchen table, whose author became the winner of the 2015 World Press Photo. The analysis of this war photo from its outrageous experience (due to the dirt and remains of blood in it) makes us realize that, in fact, our superficial feeling and skin is the way to determine its political and deep moral value.