To Write a View with Light. Expressions and Metadiscourses of the Photography-Document in the Contemporary Spanish Context
Abstract
This article explores the use of light in photography not as a necessary technical process, but as a powerful discursive generator that writes a point of view about the world, while it reflects on its own process. Confronting the logics and uses of photography in different historical moments, we can understand how the conception of light has changed under different artistic sensibilities, which will help us to frame three contemporary projects to which we want to pay special attention: Sputtering, by Jorge Isla (2017); Sol, by Ricardo Cases (2017) and C.E.N.S.U.R.A by Julián Barón (2011). These projects will allow us to approach three light sources —fluorescent, solar and flash— and three ways of deconstructing it. Results will show how the three projects use light beyond its role as a mere image enabler to articulate the author's view while building a metadiscourse within the framework of contemporary Spanish photography.
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