Abstract
This monograph contributes to the research of a complex problem: how to study image today; and how to think its sharing. To elaborate an answer to this question, the problem was situated in a discussion about the representation and put in a connection with a triple questioning - ontological, axiological and epistemological - of the sharing of the visible, which is understood as one of the problems of the contemporary political philosophy.
The method, which is used, consists to analyze the statements (texts explaining the legitimately visible images) and the visibilities (images chosen as appropriate illustrations of the texts) in the field of the archive. The study of a particular case - that consists to a double official mode of work with documentary photographs taken during the period of normalization in Slovakia - reveals the fact that nor during the period of the authoritative regime of the normalization, neither during the contemporary period so called democratic, the legitimate sharing of the visible is possible without fixing certain esthetic norms which function as political limits of the vision: no sharing of the being, of the values and of the knowledge by means the image is possible without intervention of speaking and without production of representations.