Photography as an act of collaboration

The camera is usually considered to be a passive tool under the control of the operator. This definition implicitly constrains how we use the medium, as well as how we look at – and what we see in – its interpretations of scenes, objects, events and ‘moments’. This text will suggest another way of thinking about – and using – the photographic medium. Based on the evidence of photographic practice (mine and others’), I will suggest that, as a result of the ways in which the medium interprets, juxtaposes and renders the elements in front of the lens, the camera is capable of depicting scenes, events and moments that did not exist and could not have existed until brought into being by the act of photographing them. Accordingly, I will propose that the affective power of many photographs is inseparable from their ‘photographicness’ – and that the photographic medium should therefore be considered as an active collaborator in the creation of uniquely photographic images

Na mira do olhar: um exercício de análise da fotografia nas revistas ilustradas cariocas, na primeira metade do século XX

This article presents a historical approach for the analysis of photographic images, followed by the application of these theoretical and methodological considerations to a series of photographs issued in two popular magazines, published in the city of Rio de Janeiro between 1900 and 1960. Through the analysis of the photographic message, class behaviour codes are related to their social representations.Este artigo traz considerações sobre a análise histórica de imagens fotográficas, aplicando as propostas teórico-metodológicas apresentadas a uma série fotográfica composta pelas imagens de duas revistas ilustradas, Careta e O Cruzeiro, publicadas na cidade do Rio de Janeiro entre 1900 e 1960. Por meio da análise da mensagem fotográfica relaciona-se a elaboração dos códigos de comportamento de classe às suas representações sociais

Sexotic: The interplay between sexualization and exoticization

The introduction reflects on the methodological value and implications of the concept „sexotic“, situates it in the research on processes of sexualization and exoticization and demonstrates how the individual contributions to the special issue relate to three central topics that can be approached via the sexotic: mobilities and migrations, arts and media, science and moralities