Documentary photography of a cultural site: Constructing atopias
Després-Lonnet, Marie
Documentary photography of a cultural site: Constructing atopias - 2014.
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This paper aims to consider documentary photography both as a medium and as a tool for a group united around a project to improve the visibility of a territory. A sociosemiotic analysis of a series of photographs taken at the Bibracte archeological site shows how these images are constructed according to a particular relationship with time and space, in accordance with the point of view from which different groups seek to document the site. Using the concept of heterotopia, developed by Michel Foucault, the article then demonstrates that documentary photography is less a visual representation of place than the trace of a particular way of writing and reading a site.
Documentary photography of a cultural site: Constructing atopias - 2014.
82
This paper aims to consider documentary photography both as a medium and as a tool for a group united around a project to improve the visibility of a territory. A sociosemiotic analysis of a series of photographs taken at the Bibracte archeological site shows how these images are constructed according to a particular relationship with time and space, in accordance with the point of view from which different groups seek to document the site. Using the concept of heterotopia, developed by Michel Foucault, the article then demonstrates that documentary photography is less a visual representation of place than the trace of a particular way of writing and reading a site.
Réseaux sociaux