Fotografia expandida: o documentário imaginário de uma paisagem submersa entre a arte contemporânea e o documental

Abstract

This research is about the photography between contemporary art and documentary. We will use, as the object, the photographs of the book "Underwater Landscape", of the photographers John Castillo, Pedro David and Pedro Motta, who appear as a hybrid, with characteristics of both, the art and the document. The text has its theoretical basis through reflection on the approach to documentary photography and contemporary art, using the authors André Rouillé, Jacques Rancière, Nicholas Bourriaud and Rosalind Krauss. The methodology used was the Photographic Analysis of François Soulages proposing that we should look at the photograph as a particular kind of visual sign produced in specific contexts and social relations in which the senses are operated and produced for him to understand the object to be photographed, we think of it as an object-problem, and we should examine it according to the photographic material and its critical questioning, and at the same time, the cultural imaginary. We improved this, with the ideas of Jon Prosser, who says the interpretative process of the Case Study requires the management of visual data in a logical sequence, which includes organizing, indexing and categorization. The interpretive process begins before the pictures are seen, decisions on which photos and how they were chosen, it is necessary to create a sense among the photographs, by observing the valuation contained in the images and their relation to the process.