Результат вылился в книгу " Америка согласно Кафке" (Amerika according to Kafka), где фотография взаимодополняла или олицетворяла некоторые эпизоды книги.
Если до этого разговор вёлся исключительно о взаимоотношении фотографа и чужой культуры, то этот пример интересен тем, что тут фотограф больше руководствуется не своим собственным ощущением чужой культуры, а визуализирует её основываясь на литературную основу писателя. В какой-то степени Jan Lukas попытался стать посредником между автором и его же собственным литературным произведением. Чтобы перевести его в другое, более приближенное к документальности измерение. Напомню, что Кафка написал свой роман Америка ни разу там не побывав. Конечно же, роман Кафки не изибилует деталями американской действительности того времени. Все действия и события чаще всего происходят в своего рода универсальных ситуациях и не изобилуют национальными американскими чертами. Основные действия происходят в городе Нью-Йорк. На вопрос насколько сложно Кафке было описывать неизвестный ему мир на листе бумаги, я неожиданно нашел ответ у самого Jan Lukas. Говоря о Нью Йорке Лукас часто цитировал Марка Твена, который в свою очередь сказал: "New York is not America, but the world,". В подтверждение этим словам Ян добавлял: "When you walk around Manhattan with a camera, you'll find images which can very well be from Naples, Hong Kong, Tel-Aviv, San Juan, or even Calcutta. In New York you can find just about anything. Just like me. I'm finding Pompeii in Manhattan." ( http://www.iphotocentral.com/search/detail.php/256/Jan+Lukas/0/8826/1 )
Возможно вомногом благодаря этому стало возможным появление романа Америка, в последствии ставшим основой для деятельности фотографа документалиста Jan Lukas и его попытку визуализировать это произвеление. На мой взгляд это прекрасный пример взаимодополняемости литературы фотографией и как результат - целостность произведения в целом.
Естественно такое стало возможным благодаря хорошему знанию Jan Lukas американский культуры, который к тому времени уже достаточно долго прожил в Америке.
America According to Kafka
House of Franz Kafka, Prague 1993
ISBN 80-901456-2-0
5.3 Jan Lukas photography and literature
Would like to touch this question as a relationship between photography and literature. In 1911 Czech writer Franz Kafka began writing his novel, "America." Main events is in the novel revolves around a 16-year-old immigrant who arrives by a ship to America. It is noteworthy that Kafka himself was never in America. The novel was never finished and the events are interrupted just short. After many years of Czech photographer Jan Lukas, who at that time about 20 years living in the United States tried to find places that are consistent with his view of the atmosphere of the American reality that has been described in the novel and after photographed them.
The result turned into a book, "America according to Kafka" (Amerika according to Kafka), where the photo complementary or represented the some episodes of the book.
If the conversation was conducted prior to this only about the relationship between the photographer and a foreign culture, this example is interesting because here the photographer more is not guided his own sense of a foreign culture, and visualizes it on the basis of the literary basis of the writer. To some degree Jan Lukas tried become a mediator between the author and by his own literary work. To put it in another, more approximate to the documentary dimension. Let me remind you that Kafka wrote his novel America has never visited there. Of course, Kafka's novel is not full of details of the American reality at that time.
All actions and events most often occur in a kind of universal situations and do not abound in American national traits. The main action takes place in New York City. To the question how hard it is Kafka was unknown to him describe the world on paper, I suddenly found the answer at the very Jan Lukas. Speaking of New York, Lucas often quoted Mark Twain, who in turn said: "New York is not America, but the world,". In support of these words Ian added: "When you walk around Manhattan with a camera, you'll find images which can very well be from Naples, Hong Kong, Tel-Aviv, San Juan, or even Calcutta. In New York you can find just about anything. Just like me. I'm finding Pompeii in Manhattan. "(Http://www.iphotocentral.com/search/detail.php/256/Jan+Lukas/0/8826/1)
Perhaps because of this vomnogom made possible the emergence of the novel America, later became the basis for a documentary photographer of Jan Lukas and his attempt to visualize the work. In my opinion this is a perfect example of complementarity between photography and literature as a result - the integrity of the whole work.
Naturally, this was made possible by a good knowledge of American culture of Jan Lukas, who had already lived long enough in America.
America According to Kafka
House of Franz Kafka, Prague 1993
ISBN 80-901456-2-0
"But in the roadway, which was kept free, mounted policeman could be seen here a there sitting on motionless horses,..."
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