Behind the image, ‘the look’: the use of photography in cultural studies

Abstract

To the questioning the use of the image photographic at investigation in cultural learning, boarding two perspectives of analyses: the photographer/investigator taken this article as producer agent, in yours images as font of documentation to being incorporate to the camp of report, fattening the narrative of the scientific investigation: visuals fonts how document the structure of the social conjunct in your quotidian action. And the photograph produced in group, the use of the image as mark of memory in reconstitute of events in of the social group, models of representation and repetition, thematic marks and composites thus as one dialogue with the past across of the spaces, in the perspective of one semiology of the imagistic popular auto- representative.