  In the old articles of Ogievetskii and Polubarinov, Kalb and Ramond the
notoph concept, the longitudinal field originated from the antisymmetric tensor
(AST), has been proposed. In our work we analyze the theory of the AST field of
the second rank from the viewpoint of the normalization problem. We obtain
4-potentials and strengths which coincide with those obtained in the works of
Ahluwalia and Dvoeglazov. We conclude that it is possible to describe degrees
of freedom of the photon and of the notoph explicitly by slightly modified
Bargmann-Wigner field function. The physical consequences and relations to the
previous works are discussed. Furthermore, we derive equations for the
symmetric tensor of the second rank on the basis of the same modification of
the Bargmann-Wigner formalism, i.e., the equations which describe the dynamical
behavior of the field of the maximal spin 2.
