Policies of looking and memory on capturing and filing photographs

Abstract

This paper thinks over photography and photographic archive as indispensable devices of meaning producers for the study of memory configuration. From an experience of old image’s search about religious rites from Corrientes (Province in northeastern Argentina) at the Nation’s General Archive, this paper analyzes the influence of the constitutive procedures of this spaces, always conditioned by stablished rules of enunciation and visuality, in decision of capture, oblivion, expose, conservation and hiding of this kind of images.