Abstract

The article presents Alfred Ligocki ideas of revealing photography which can be placed in the „critical arts” trend.Ligocki as an art critic quests photography which reveals Reality hidden under coats of stereotypes, patterns and banalities. In his depiction photography wants „something more”, and compare with ordinary photography perspective and this banal reality appears as a danger.Ligocki believes that no other medium because of power of its documentation and authentication does not possesses so strength of persuasion as photographic medium. The critic considers that the realism of camera is particularly adapted to recognizing function of works of art understanding not as sociological and scientific sense but as conscious attitude towards reality.Ligocki is a real humanist and searches the connection between the art and real life. He encourages to treat the camera realism as people conversation, these people which join distrust to obvious matters and sensibility to people problems.Ligocki’s vision of “revealing photography” relies on treating it as challenge and at the same time not forgetting about the moral aspect of any creative activity