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Keeping an Eye Open for Scents and Stenches. Reflections on Combining Smelling with Visual Data in Perspective of Anthropology of Waste

Publication date: 2013

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2013, Issue 3 (17) , pp. 226 - 233

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.13.022.2074

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Włodzimierz K. Pessel
University of Warsaw, Institute of Polish Culture, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 00-927 Warszawa
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Keeping an Eye Open for Scents and Stenches. Reflections on Combining Smelling with Visual Data in Perspective of Anthropology of Waste

Abstract

The text deals with an issue of reading images as a way of perceiving the osmosphere. The author observes that eyesight might enhance other sensory modalities, provided that the eye no longer is isolated from natural interaction with the environment which has olfactory properties, but also audio and haptic. The analysis is related to two possibilities of reasoning about smells based on visual data. In the first case, the photograph appeals to the olfactory memory and serve as a tool to elicit a narration on scents from a person. In the second case, the use of the olfactory imagination seems to be necessary as a sort of subconscious for the hegemonic eye. The image an individual can see evokes internal representations, which should be taken into account when analysing and interpreting the urban space.

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Information: Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2013, Issue 3 (17) , pp. 226 - 233

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Keeping an Eye Open for Scents and Stenches. Reflections on Combining Smelling with Visual Data in Perspective of Anthropology of Waste

English:

Keeping an Eye Open for Scents and Stenches. Reflections on Combining Smelling with Visual Data in Perspective of Anthropology of Waste

Authors

University of Warsaw, Institute of Polish Culture, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 00-927 Warszawa

Published at: 2013

Article status: Open

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