The basic change lies in the shift from viewing the photography as secondary, static medium, documentary capture of experience which is, in the context of conceptual art, offered by the live art events. With the passing of time, relations between performative and photography are becoming much more complex. Photographs become equal carriers of performative gestures and theatricality, but also of critical concepts (feminist, activist and other strategies); photographic process reveals the complex economy of desire, pleasure, pain, loss; the photographic camera becomes the instrument of fantasy which enables the photographer to work within the existing spaces and everyday relationships, with the intention to change them, Theatrical origins of contemporary staged photography, where action is enacted solely for the photograph, become visible again (provocative staging of prohibited themes, new approaches to photographic portrait etc.) The contemporary authorial photography requires the separation from the dominant ideologies and ultimate democracy. Following is a set of interpretations which does not try to privilege certain ways of seeing the world in favor of others.