The indicial role of photography on grave inscriptions

Abstract

This study seeks to understand the way the sign acts in the imaginary and in the repertory of the reader (influenced by paradigms) in the act of reception of the visual text. Reading is focused here as a phenomenon sustained by the sign as a sparkler of the individual's imaginary and repertory as a text receptor. The indicial feature of photography is analyzed by using fixed portraits in Arapongas municipal cemetery.