Photography as object and resource of memory

Authors

  • Adair Felizardo Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Etienne Samain Universidade de Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2007v3n3p205

Keywords:

Photography, Images, Memory, Digital media

Abstract

With the rise of digital photography, its ease, potentials and weaknesses, we have become more and more liable to the iconographic forgetting of our own memory, our photographic memory. This essay intends to discuss the value and the use of photography as one of the great memory-bearing instruments, own memory, memory to be clarified, interpreted, remembered.

Author Biographies

Adair Felizardo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Fotógrafo e professor de fotografia. Pesquisador do Núcleo de Estudos Açorianos da UFSC – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Etienne Samain, Universidade de Campinas

Professor e coordenador do programa de Pós-Graduação em Multimeios do Instituto de Artes da Unicamp – Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Desenvolve pesquisas sobre os usos da fotografia em antropologia visual.

Published

2007-12-15

How to Cite

Felizardo, A., & Samain, E. (2007). Photography as object and resource of memory. Discursos Fotograficos, 3(3), 205–220. https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2007v3n3p205

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