A fotografia-documento e a importância de saberes especializados dos profissionais da informação para a memória

Abstract

This work aimed at addressing the importance of specialized knowledge for the treatment of photography as a documentary source in the construction of repositories to register institutional memory in archives, museums and libraries. In this sense, treating photography involves its representation as a document, its storage, its organization and its availability to public access. One ought to consider its specificities, since the photographic image explains hegemonic cultural relations, its social and cultural representations and organizational practices, reconstructing and validating social discourses and practices. Initially, there is a brief analysis of photography from the point of view of semiotics, the presentation of the functions of photography as a document and, finally, the presentation of important aspects for the analysis of photography, taking into account information retrieval and the different forms of documentation of photography in archives, museums and libraries. This is a bibliographic review of the SciElo and Brapci databases, using the descriptors “fotografia+documento+memoria” (“photograph+document+memory”) and “fotografia-documento”+memoria (“photo-document”+memory), from 2015 to 2020, without a language filter. The findings of the search in the database were scarce, which suggests little research on the topic.