The photographic act and its poetical game: a trajectory about contemporary manifestations of photography from the relations of game in its production of meaning

Abstract

The main target of this work is to explore the possible relations between photography and the poetical game by bias of creative conception. At first, some texts of photography history collaborate with the manifestation of the present photographic thought. Flusser’s concepts about the gadget and the whitening of the black box limit the whole research. The game’s properties by Caillois increase the link in debate about photography as action. In the Field of poetical communication, authors like Jakobson and Pignatari contribute on the definitions of language and its non-verbal manifestations. Therefore, the research presents an analysis of part of the work produced by Carlos Fadon Vicente, Evgen Bavcar, Cindy Sherman and Abelardo Morell, using as epistemological basis the games categorization by Caillois.