Metodologiczne problemy historii wizualnej

Piotr Witek

The present article discusses the issues stemming from technological revolution which resulted in the transformation of contemporary culture from the verbal type into the audiovis-ual one. As a consequence of cultural changes, history ceased to be a domain of historiog-raphers only. Owing to new media communication technologies, history is present on ubiquitous monitors and screens. The wave of audiovisual revolution brought a new research trend termed visual history. The article discusses methodological problems of visual history.