Roland Barthes and the art of photography: research around three authors of influence on the ultimate barthesian theory for photography

• Grant number: 15/19941-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: June 28, 2017
• End date: August 11, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications - Visual Communication
• Principal Investigator: Leda Tenório da Motta
• Grantee: Leda Tenório da Motta
• Host Investigator: Claude Coste
• Host Institution: Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação (PRPG). Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS), France

Abstract

The main purpose is to recognize the work of three contemporary French artists referred, implicitly and explicitly, in the latest and most compelling theory of photographic sublime, such as formulated by Roland Barthes through the concept of "punctum". They are Lucien Clergue (1934-2014), Daniel Boudinet (1945-1990) and Bernard Faucon (1950), important names in the scene of the nineteenth-century French art that are for now off the horizon investigations of the author's specialists. This is to show that in addition to the corpus considered in the Camara lucida the "punctum" can be found anchored in an unsuspected corpus involving these three photographic developers. By appropriate, it aims still provide subsidies for a critical reading of the work of Sebastião Salgado, whom Barthes did not know but whose reportage photographs, hypothetically, would have been placed by him on account of the "myth". (AU)