De lo fotográfico a la fotografía digital contemporánea: la imagen en el intercambio discursivo

Abstract

In this article, we shall reflect on the changes in the ways of production, circulation and reception of photography since the emergence of the digital technologies and the new Internet-based media. With respect to this, we shall reflect on the impact that the new technologies caused in the way of thinking about photography (change from analogical to digital) and its social uses (from the dematerialization of the image and the new digital media). Transformations that towards the change of the century led to the diagnosis of death of photography and the arrival of a new age: the post-photography age, in the context of a new visual digital culture.Nowadays, photography is not only a way of testimony and memory (these were its fundamental functions during the 20th century) but it also gains a new first-rate communicative function. Shared, commented and interchanged, contemporary photography is a message in itself in the daily discursive interchange.