K interpretácii života stredných vrstiev na zobrazeniach mesta. (Trenčín 1918–1938)

Monika Vrzgulová

Language: slo

Article type: Štúdie

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Photographic pictures belong to the sources which the Slovak ethnologists are working with. It is necessary to mention that the work with the "picture" in wider sense of word has its large reserves. We reflect that the "picture" is the immutable source of data of certain society in given historical period but nevertheless we do not consider it as equal informatic basis. It serves merely as the supplement or resurrection of implications which were concluded on the base of the study of other sources. Cacellation value of pictures (in this study of photographic pictures) retains unchanged in time. For to decode them we have to know the surrounding in which they were created; the stimulus which formed them and not less important is information of their "next life". The author, on concrete corpus of photographic pictures, tried to show the possibilities which offers their decodation. Key words: photographs, middle class, urban research