@ Fortaleza: fotografia enquanto performance para poéticas de cidade no Instagram

Abstract

This study provides a survey of photographic practice in cyberspace, focusing on publications made on three profiles administered by some locals and residents of Fortaleza wich photographs and share their visions of the city in the photo app and social network, Instagram. It tries to understand the socio-cultural logics that guide the agencies on the same device from the context of photographs’s production, speeches of their actions and their reception. From a vision that includes the photographer as “diretor” (SOULAGES, 2010) and photography as “communication event” (PROSSER, 2004), it discussed the rituals and gestures that involve the act of shooting and sharing images of the city. Envisioning photographs, narratives that accompany them, the interactions generated by the publications and the meanings that the actors themselves attach to their actions on Instagram, it discuss if the photography practiced by them could be understand as a kind of “photographic performance”, pointing for the development of a “poetics of the city”.