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Author(s)

Wagner Souza e Silva

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2010-04-09

Examining board members

Mauro Wilton de Sousa; Norval Baitello Junior; Silvia Regina Ferreira de Laurentiz; Arlindo Ribeiro Machado Neto; Fernando Cury de Tacca

• Advisor: Mauro Wilton de Sousa

Abstract

Since its beginning, the photography and its hybrid nature, drawn by the conjunction of science and art, was treated more as a technological tool for service to those knowledges, and not as a phenomenon originally able to question their place in Western thought, this one understood as a reflexion of a particular modern project of research and experience. Taking as a point of analysis some aspects of their technological trajectory and their social integration, this study aims to examine philosophical basis for the understanding of photography in its digital contemporary setting, using the interpretative models proposed by Roland Barthes and Vilém Flusser, but also looking for support in the thought of Martin Heidegger. It is understood that the digital universe, especially when observing the processes of hybridization and the interconnections facilitated by certain characteristics of numeric, sets the ambience necessary for the photograph and its consequences, the techno-images, to be enjoyed within their prospects more original and elementary. (AU)