Chronicles of the everyday
Хроники на всекидневието
Langugage: Bulgarian
The photographs in this book represent an approach to photography made possible in the early 20th century by the development of photographic techniques and emulsions. Invented by Oscar Barnack in 1926, the "Leica" camera is a tool similar to a writer's notebook or an artist's sketchbook that is always at hand, ready for use. This gave impetus to "photography as a window" and began a tradition established by the French humanist school of the 1930s—1940s and American documentary of the 1970s.
The authors' collections in the publication are not thematically linked, but thematic and pictorial parallels can be found in a broad time frame from the 1960s to the present. Which prevails - the critical gaze, the hunt for moments, or the conscientious chronicler? The viewer is invited to "know" what touches him, to push his analogies and oppositions, to accept and reject, and perhaps to learn something new.