A imagem familiar: memória, tempo e fotografia

Júlia Capovilla Luz Ramos

doi:10.4013/ver.2015.29.72.05

Abstract

This text presents the thinking of personalities such as Joan Fontcuberta (2010), Roland Barthes (1984), Siegfried Kracauer (2008), Eugenio Bucci (2008) and Mario Quintana (1983) on certain photos of families, helping to intend the relationship between time and space, life and death, and permanence and impermanence of images. The purpose is to understand how memory processes triggered by such photographs lead to the same direction: that it does not freeze time, but carries a fl ow oriented to both past and future. Keywords: photography, memory, time.

Highlights

This text presents the thinking of personalities such as Joan Fontcuberta (2010), Roland Barthes (1984), Siegfried Kracauer (2008), Eugenio Bucci (2008) and Mario Quintana (1983) on certain photos of families, helping to intend the relationship between time and space, life and death, and permanence and impermanence of images
The purpose is to understand how memory processes triggered by such photographs lead to the same direction: that it does not freeze time, but carries a flow oriented to both past and future
Pensar a fotografia como uma espécie de atestado de óbito mostra-se inconcebível para Fontcuberta, já que ele parte do princípio de que a imagem em questão foi a responsável pelo seu nascimento

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Introduction

This text presents the thinking of personalities such as Joan Fontcuberta (2010), Roland Barthes (1984), Siegfried Kracauer (2008), Eugenio Bucci (2008) and Mario Quintana (1983) on certain photos of families, helping to intend the relationship between time and space, life and death, and permanence and impermanence of images. Por meio das imagens de seus entes queridos, tais personalidades objetivaram desvendar o potencial de historicidade dessas fotografias a partir da memória que elas despertavam, entendendo que tais fotos, se não lhes mudaram o curso da vida, permitiram-lhes pensar outros sentidos.

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