Charkowska szkoła fotografii społecznej. Między dokumentem a sztuką

The topic of the text is the relationship between the documentary and artistic sides of photography. This issue is related to the problem of “reading” photographs as texts, as well as modeling reality as an object of interpretation. These problems will be presented with reference to the “Kharkov school of social photography”. The history of Kharkov social photography began in the 1960/70s and is associated with such names as: Boris Mikhailov, Yevhen Pavlov, Oleh Malowanyj, Serhij Bratkov and others.