mãe, pai, cresci
mom, dad, i grew up
From the outset, photographic production was not accessible to all social groups. The elites were the first forerunners of what was initially called the photographic invention. Due to the cost associated with the techniques in force at the time, the step towards the democratization of this medium was only made possible by the intervention of figures who are now renowned in the history of photography, such as André Disdéri and George Eastman.
However, the number of evolutionary events (social, economic, technological) meant that image creation quickly took off, even if the current panorama already shows a huge change. In terms of quantity, the daily creation of images today corresponds, on average, to that recorded annually in the middle of the last century; the notion of noisy chaos has been included in the production of images in a forced way, partly fueled by the digital age. Even so, there is still the constant - and obsessive - attempt by the photographer to show and create what has not yet been seen and explored (constantly living in an impossibilia), with the consequence of depositing more images.
Solutions are needed to slow down unbridled creation, and Joachim Schmid's creative and complex manipulation of found photography is a plausible path towards a production hypothesis full of photographic recycling. Not only Schmid's strategy, but essentially the re-signification of vernacular photography, gives rise to a promising approach to combating the massification of the image. David Bate says that photography, unlike painting, gives certainty that something happened or was present. In the field of the vernacular, the manipulation of personal/collective memory can become an essential strategy for reinterpreting and merging two times in a new approach, where we move experientially, circulating between times and spaces, memories and different moments of capturing reality, creating new meanings throughout the rhetorical technique of synchysis.
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Conference Paper
13th Viana International Film Conference
Higher Education School - ESE
Viana do Castelo, PT 2024
Maria Adriana Baptista uniMAD-IPP | ID+ - UA
Olívia Marques da Silva uniMAD-IPP | ID+ - UA
Cristina Castro uniMAD-IPP | CIEBA | CIAUD-UPT