Photography and its tentacles: possible interpretations in the universe files

Abstract

The photograph is not only a kind of iconic representation which enjoys an extensive cultural use and a wide historical background but also presents a specific morphology and a documentary type with specific characteristics. Over the past two decades, there was a great interest in the social sciences and humanities around the picture with an interdisciplinary approach and historiographical approaches, the history of photographic techniques, philosophical, artistic, anthropological, sociological, psychological, semiotic, educational, to name just a few here. Our research intends to focus on photography in the informative-documentary perspective, examining the image as evidence of a record within an information system by studying the management of funds and photographic collections, and treatment of their iconic representation of content to generate secondary documentary representations , aimed at enabling the recovery of the documents and the information contained therein. From this perspective, we seek from now on the contribution of authors as Agustín Lacruz (2015); Benitez and Rodrigues (2006), Boadas I Raset; Casellas; Suquet (2001), Valle Gastaminza (1999) Lacerda (2008) and Lopez (2000), which will corroborate the theoretical construction of our research, with regard to the concepts of photography and characteristics. We seek in this brief presentation elencarmos the picture of the problem within the scope of the file and conceptualize the photographic documents within a state of affairs. Once recognized photography as archival document is necessary studies and reflections on file activity such as evaluation, classification and archival description and its applicability in photography as documentary analysis object, its methods and p ossibilities in the main reading methods images.