GÂNDURI DESPRE MEMORIA FOTOGRAFIEI
Thoughts about the Memory of Photography

- A Museum of Images -

Summary/Abstract: Relations established between images created at some distance in timeand space, within different cultural traditions, and not only, prove that people donot register the reality of culture as a museum that they strive to put it in order.Photography and the one that uses it, defining a certain attitude towards thehistory of the spirit of other times images, demonstrate that visual history ofcivilization can be understood not as a form of museification, but as a livinguniverse.Of all instruments, which were invented by man to meet the need forarchiving in a museum of social memory, photo came to play an important role.To meet this important role should be kept alive in perpetual transformation andextension, for not to turn it into an inconsistent warehouse.The photo may assume the role of being an extension of archiving andiconic museification.Photography documented and argued by iconic function is a snapshotof a moment in reality, there is a higher form of objectivity in relation to what isin the picture. Consequently photography is a single moment in the fascinatingritual unrepeatable encounter with real spending.By this, photography becomes a living present evidence of pastrealities, of the historical past, an imprint in the collective memory andindividual scientific functions, symbolic and artistic.The procedural and material uploaded photography gets corpus ofreality elapsed time, a moment, an instant moment, of the existence of historicalpast of human existence, generous and competent returned in advance, presentand future.“... You cannot picture except of what exists, which can reflect light, so thereactually exists.Photography is what happened after a moment, the evidence, of the existence, ofthe characters in the image”. (Barthes, 2005: 87)

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