O dilúvio pós-moderno: a estética do sublime e a imagem contemporânea manifestadas na fotografia Deluge de David LaChapelle

Abstract

Analyzes the sublime in modernity through the eyes of three authors: Longinus, Edmund Burke and Kant and employs it in figuration in the imagery of a photographic study. On the trails of photography, from the second half of the twentieth century, to be guided by the ideas of André Rouillé and construction of a photo-expression and Lombardi Kátia Hallak, in seeking to structure a new way of documentary photography in contemporary society: the Dcumentary Imaginary. Demonstrates how to perceive the photograph as art material. Describes allegory as a strategy for production of contemporary images. Performs an analysis of the photograph american David LaChapelle’s Deluge, through the aesthetic concept of the sublime and the contemporary photography, starting with the biblical narrative of the flood, through the Renaissance paintings of Michelangelo and creating a parallel between this photograph and present society, the comments on the behavior of the postmodern subject.