Fotografia e encenação: cena expandida em fusões com o teatral

Abstract

Through a reflexive exercise we search to understand how the staging, this gesture originally from theater, not referring to it incessantly, though not completely excluding it, acquired meaning in photographic language. The starting point was the understanding of staging as a game, as an operation of inventions, as a creative gesture that extends the photographed protocol. Our approach also searches to explore crossings, mergers and contaminations established between the photographic and theatrical languages and their reverberations in the image representation of the human. In addition to reflexions of theoretical nature, this work proposes a reading exercise of some selected images from the work of photographers Duane Michals and Jorge Molder. These issues are mainly inspired in two thinkers: François Soulages and his aesthetic of "that was staged" and André Rouillé with his concept of expression-photography. Their contributions constitute the core for our reflexions, which however, were expanded and reached other authors as we make our investigative journey.