The stones of Le Gray
Image as resistance to documentality
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https://doi.org/10.24310/fotocinema.29.2024.19627Keywords:
Photography, Documentality, Representation, History, PoliticsAbstract
The analysis of the documentary dimension of photography has focused essentially on its capacity to become a "trace of the past" or to illustrate certain historical events. This functional dimension, linked to an alleged verdictive value, has concealed the dogmatic use and political dimension of the notion of photographic document. But, in reality, a photograph only documents itself. And it is precisely in this self-referential dimension that its historical and political value is inscribed. Through the analysis of a photograph by Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), we deal with this resistance of the image to the documentary understood in its common and normative meaning.
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