La condición fotográfica de las autobiografías de Ramón Gómez de la Serna: Mi autobiografía (1924)

Abstract

This article addresses the presence of photographic images in Mi autobiografía (1924) by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888–1963). The analysis takes into account not only the uses of photography in the abovementioned autobiographical text, but photography as part of an aesthetic practice that transcends the physical presence of the image and enters into the terrain of what Rosalind Krauss considers to be the 'photographic condition'. Her post-structuralist analysis of the relationships between photography and the aesthetic project of Surrealism is the starting point for our exploration of the interwoven use of literary and photographic images in relation to the creation of a discourse of identity. The result will show an innovative and multidisciplinary autobiographical writing, able to challenge the limits and characteristics of the autobiographical practices of the time in their Spanish cultural context.