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Author(s)

Helena Gomes dos Reis Pessoa

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2006-05-09

Examining board members

Carlos Alberto Fajardo; Annateresa Fabris; Celso Fernando Favaretto

• Advisor: Carlos Alberto Fajardo

Abstract

The main subject of this research is the self-portrait. Three methods have been used to accomplish it: Painting, photography and graphic design. The aim of the research is to establish relations between the painting as a method of representation (subjectivity + phenomenology) and the photography as an indicative method (subjectivity + machine/program)*. In addition to supporting the questions relative to self-representation and the production of ones self image, the project creates a link between the selfportrait as a painting and the self-portrait as a photo while attempting to enclose the specifications of each method. Certain fixed rules and a whole operational method has been established for the creation of the selfportraits. Another section of the project is the assembling of a book (with the entire collection of images produced using the photographic method), together with the creation of the installation composed by 238 self-portrait paintings. Another intention of the project is to broaden the understanding of the basic contemporary concept of the . *Vilém Flusser, Ensaio sobre a fotografia: para uma filosofia da técnica, cap.3. (AU)