Analysis of fhotography S.Maximishin: combining documentaryand gestalt approaches
The author analyzes the photo of S. Maksimishin «Ferry through the Irtysh. Tobol'sk. June 2005», applying the documentary methods of K. Mannheim-R.Bonsack, and also using the ideas of Gestalt analysis, summarized by R. Arnheim. This approach makes it necessary to clarify the differences between the understanding that starts intuitively and spontaneously, and the interpretation, as a result, built on the basis of a documentary inventory of visual data. In the proposed interpretation, a series of Gestalt is found, the totality of which reflects a visual gesture that colonizes the depicted characte