The photography in the age of technical incompetence
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2015.4.20524Keywords:
Photography, Visual culture, Automation of the photographic actAbstract
This article focuses on the controversial “monkey selfie” to raise a question: who shoots pictures today, the man or the camera? Seeking to attain a possible answer, it presents a brief history of the automation process in the photographic act and a critical-analytical outline titled technical incompetence, in order to understand how the camera automatic modes surpassed the will of the snapper. This discussion has as its main influences the Critical Theory of Benjamin and Flusser, and the contributions of Soulages and Rouillé. From this theoretical-conceptual exercise, it was possible to apprehend that the human intention has been replaced by the devices’ default settings, one of the reasons why photography is still seen as a purely technical construction, affected in its communicative potential.Downloads
References
BAITELLO JUNIOR, Norval. A era da iconofagia. São Paulo: Hacker Editores, 2005.
BENJAMIN, Walter. Magia e técnica, arte e política: ensaios sobre literatura e história da cultura. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 2012.
DUBOIS, Philippe. O ato fotográfico. 13. ed. Campinas: Papirus, 2010.
FABRIS, Annateresa. Identidades virtuais: uma leitura do retrato fotográfico. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2004.
FLUSSER, Vilém. O universo das imagens técnicas: elogio da superficialidade. São Paulo: Annablume, 2008.
________. Filosofia da caixa preta: ensaios para uma futura filosofia da fotografia. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 2009.
KOSSOY, Boris. Fotografia e história. 4. ed. São Paulo: Ateliê Editorial, 2012.
ROUILLÉ, André. Fotografia: entre documento e arte contemporânea. São Paulo: Senac, 2009.
SONTAG, Susan. Sobre fotografia. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2004.
SOULAGES, François. Estética da fotografia: perda e permanência. São Paulo: Senac, 2010.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright
The submission of originals to Revista Famecos implies the transfer by the authors of the right for publication. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. If the authors wish to include the same data into another publication, they must cite Revista Famecos as the site of original publication.
Creative Commons License
Except where otherwise specified, material published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is correctly cited.