L’objet trouvé or the shadow of the found object. From photography to cinema, from painting to Man Ray
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2018.v0i16.4092Keywords:
Vanguard, Photography, Cinematography, Rayography, Solarization, Found objectAbstract
In 1908, when Man Ray discovers the photography in the hands of Alfred Stieglitz at 291 Gallery in Nueva York, he quits the painting and embraces the photography forever. The momentum of the avant-garde had something to do with such decision, which brought Man Ray to the exploration of an artistic writing which visually, transcribes the “authomatic” writing inspired by the Surrealist movement.
The technical dimension of the photography, emphasized afterwards by the cinema, defines a research line for the artist which predicts his encounter, random or not, with l’objet trouvé or, better said, with the shadow of the found object. First of all, because photography and cinema do not transform the objet, but they use the light as a path towards the object’s image itself, which is then seen as a shadow. Secondly, because photography and cinema as “mechanic eyes” embrace the idea of taking the place of the creator, in order to introduce an observer which acts over the elements to carry out the symbolic reading of the artistic objet.
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