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Accepted Paper:

has pdf download Evenemential images: photography as mediation and reconfiguration of urban experience  
José Augusto Mendes Lobato (Universidade of São Paulo)

Paper short abstract:

This paper proposes the existence of evenemential image, a category of visual record that determines symbolic appropriation on urban spaces. Through analysis of a photographic series, we discuss its ability to link mediation, human experience and media documentation in Belém, state of Pará, Brazil.

Paper long abstract:

This paper discusses the photographic act and its capacity of not only indexing, but also producing and mediating human experience in urban spaces of Latin America. Taking as an object of analysis the series "Fisionomia Belém", a collection of photos made during a research project conducted in Belém, state of Pará, Brazil, we defend the hypothesis of the existence of evenemential image - a specific category of visual representation that is able to determine symbolic appropriation and aesthetic experience through certain procedures that involve the photographic act and the capture of signs and elements from daily life. For this, we work with some presuppositions from Vilém Flusser, Dietmar Kamper and others about how imagetic representations compose human conscience processes and may change them when submitted to technical procedures. Our analysis intends to link different contributions from contemporary visual culture studies, in order to determine some characteristics of evenemential images, considering the works of Josep María Català about the complex image theory; Dulcilia Buitoni´s debates about narrative embryos; Phillipe Dubois´ argumentation about the photographic act and the indexicality of images; Milton Santos´ contributions to the studies of social processes in urban spaces; and Lucrecia Ferrara´s works on the relations between cities, media and mediation processes. At the end, we conclude that evenemential representations are able to build new significations in the contemporary urban environment of Latin America, considering its ability to link mediation, media documentation and human concrete experience in the cities which are converted into image.

Panel P17
Photographic histories of Latin America
  Session 1