Starość – „Jak pięknie być sobą”

Every epoch adopts a different attitude towards the old age, the process of fading away and old people, which manifests itself in distinct attitudes and ideas about this specific period of life. The “visual reality” of the 21st century worships beauty and youth. This entails increased social expectations about appearance. The body, especially the old man’s body, should be attractive. Nowadays there is a noticeable increase in the total number of elderly. They become therefore an attentively observed social class. In the mass media, the “appealing” old men’s images are becoming more and more popular and common, so reflections on this subject constitute an interesting and important area of investigation. This article is an attempt to reconstruct “post-modern” strategies of creating and showing the old age through images.