A Imagem imoral: aporia do modelo entre flagrante delito e livre consentimento

Abstract

This article analyses the photographic image and the role of the model in relation to its moral, and more precisely immoral, dimension. It raises the following questions: is morality a symptom that precludes any artistic, critical or transgressive attitude? Is it possible to consider the immoral stance of a photographic work when its inherent form is singularly aporetic? To what degree can morality pose a threat to a picture whose non-normative object of representation derives from a non-monstrance: subtly obscene, poetically subversive? Through a series of case-studies, it will be possible to evaluate how the screening and the staging of the model and his/her body can contain the ambiguity of the role and of the status of the model within the photographic and cinematographic practice.