From studio photographer to fotocinero and from photographic studio to the street: decadency or democratization of the social use of photography

Authors

  • Freddy Moreno Gómez Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia Colombia

Keywords:

Cultural history, visual studies, studio photography, street photography, fotocine

Abstract

This article seeks to put into dialogue the reflection that Edward Goyeneche makes in his book Photography and society on studio photography, with a historiography of street photography or photo theater, not only as a visual process in itself, but also as a intentional mental phenomenon towards a specific act and practice, with the purpose of understanding the social uses that photography was given by studio photographers and fotocineros, from the social positions and situations that these agents and their agency circumvented within the aesthetic character of social differentiation, while their habits and practices developed between the rise and fall of studio photography and the democratization of street photography. Studio and street photographers have become a research model for visual culture since they have contributed to the construction of the visual regime of modernity, achieving the systematization of the gaze within an ethical statute of the photographic image. immersed in a specific social context.

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Author Biography

Freddy Moreno Gómez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia

Dentist and Master in Biomedical Sciences from the Universidad del Valle (Colombia), who is currently a PhD candidate for the Line of Cultural History of Colombia of the Doctorate in Humanities from the Universidad del Valle, Cali (Colombia). He works as Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (Colombia), and at the School of Dentistry at the Universidad del Valle, Cali (Colombia). In addition, he is Associate Researcher (I) of the Research Group in Basic and Clinical Health Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (Colombia). He has investigated various topics, among which the development of useful biological markers in the study of contemporary human populations is highlighted through the multidisciplinary integration of different theoretical and methodological tools, borrowed from dentistry, anthropology, etc. ethnography and cultural history.

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2021-01-26

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Moreno Gómez, F. . (2021). From studio photographer to fotocinero and from photographic studio to the street: decadency or democratization of the social use of photography. Fotocinema. Revista científica De Cine Y fotografía, (22), 149–172. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/fotocinema/article/view/11695

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No. 22 (2021): The History of Photography in Latin America (19th and 20th Centuries)

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