Politiche del reale. Sulla testimonianza fotografica

Abstract

Not only, as Barthes has shown, are photographs photographs are complex objects, endowed with a high degree of depth and of depth and considerable semantic possibilities but, as Floch has Floch argued, the testimonial one is only one effect of meaning among the many that they can produce. From this derives a twofold necessity. The first has to do with the caution that must characterize the approach to images. approach to images. A photograph is not a fact, it means it, and like every process of signification it presupposes a point of view a point of view, and therefore an ideology, which is revealed only when it becomes possible to only when it becomes possible to reconstruct what is missing in the frame, what is being marginalized and how, but also which instant has been fixed, thus altering the normal flow of time. time. The second necessity follows from the first and concerns the importance of a visual competence on the part of the spectator.