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- Title
The Visual Archive: the self as author and actor.
- Authors
Baltazar, Maria João; Pombo, Fátima
- Abstract
This article intends to discuss how in some contemporary photography, the author participates as character of the work (as much as he reveals himself or the character that embodies him) and which metamorphoses take place in this photographic narrative. The work of the British twins Jane and Louise Wilson, specifically the video Hypnotic Suggestion 505, made in Portugal for the Walter Benjamin's Briefcase (1993) exhibition from the curator Andrew Renton in Oporto and the works Oddments Room (2008-09) and Unfolding The Aryan Papers (2009) will be analyzed. Starting from the ambiguity of the construction of the author and character in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes (1975), the understanding of how much is shown and hidden through this fragmentary writing is sought. According to John Roberts, in the essay Photography after the Photograph (2009), the critique of photography assumed a Barthesian discourse, where photography in a public context (magazines) or in an instrumental context (technical publications) was not exempt of a discursive montage and therefore there would not be transparency in the image. These works by Jane and Louise Wilson represent a discourse of visual archive where the authors use real spaces and facts as motto, assuming themselves as characters.
- Subjects
PHOTOGRAPHY; ROBERTS, John, 1955-; PUBLISHING
- Publication
Kepes, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 11, p83
- ISSN
1794-7111
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17151/kepes.2015.12.11.5