멜랑콜리 미학을 통한 로버트 프랭크의 다큐멘터리 사진에 대한 재해석

Abstract

This study is on The reinterpretation of Robert Frank's documentary photography through the melancholic aesthetic power. Aesthetic Pathos is a pretty gloomy and blue image, but Aesthetic Power also has an optimistic image as well. That is the power of Melancholic life as a living creature. The living creature is a strong and sensitive creator that is a human being. Through melancholic agony; Despair can be turned into the hope. That is an aesthetic power and the road of melancholic wisdom. Melancholic pathos as an aesthetic power’s origin is a laurel of victory to the human being been through the subjective pain. Greek cheerfulness replaces the despair to free will. An aesthetic power comes from the melancholic pathos. It is for us to have a chance to be born as a fulfillment of the will. That is an aesthetic power of melancholic pathos. Despair as 'The sickness unto Death' is an another possibility approached us. The happiness rooted tragedic pessimistic disposition pain change the despair into freedom through the Greek philosophers, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger. Throughout the history, the pessimistic disposition has had effects on all major areas of thinking since Greek tragedy. This form of pessimism is not an emotional disposition as the term commonly used. Melancholic pathos is an aesthetic power that overcoming and transcendence beyond finite being to infinite free subject. I studied on Robert Frank's works that have melancholic pathos of inner resonance. That is a manifestation of humanism. That is a communication between artist and image. The United states in the 1950s experienced economic growth and highly materialistic periods. Consumerism spread over all western society. Robert Frank's photographs showed for distanced view of American Society as a immigrant. He saw racial issue, alienation, despair and loneliness of America. He captured a tension of race, class differences in a daily life. He wanted to follow his intuition and his way needed viewers interpretation, not make a narrative story and artistic rule. That shows melancholic pathos and aesthetic power to keep him as an documentary photographer.