Poems on photographs or photography

[Molly Thomasy]

Dear SEELANGers,

I am beginning work on a study that examines the place of photography 
and photographs in Russian and Polish poetry.  In particular, I'm 
interested in how photographs inspire writers to engage with problems 
of history, mimesis, memory, visual vs. verbal arts, and modernity.  I 
am searching for poems written in Russian or Polish (but examples from 
other languages are also welcome) that were inspired by photographs 
(real or imaginary), or poetry on the theme of photography.  Examples I 
have found thus far include Fet's "K portretu grafini S. A. Tolstoi," 
Khodasevich's "Sorrentinskie fotografii," Brodsky's "My zhili v gorode 
tsveta okamenevshei vodki" (with its reference to Kodak), Akhmadulina's 
"Snimok," and several poems by Wislawa Szymborska ("Pierwsza fotografia 
Hitlera," "Elega podrozna," "Znieruchomienie," Fotografia z 11 
wrzesnia").

I would be grateful for any additional suggestions of poems/poets to 
consider for this project.  I would also welcome suggestions about 
prose passages, essays or stories by Russian or Polish writers on the 
theme of photography.

Many thanks in advance,

Molly Thomasy
Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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