Photography and the Documentary Writing of the Institutional archive

  • Eirini Grigoriadou Universidad de Barcelona
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESIM.2014.v10.46402
Keywords: photography, portrait, evidence, archive, documentary writing, typologies, power-knowledge.

Abstract

The article aims to explore the photography as a technology of archive –in concrete the genre of the photographic portrait–, and its documentary use in relation with the practices and the techniques of observation, of registration and archive at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th, techniques that have placed a new “political anatomy of the body”. Furthermore it intents to point out the historical discourse of these intersections through the emergency of an immense documentary writing closely connected to the power-knowledge mechanisms through the analysis of the French philosopher Michel Foucault in Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la Prison (1975).

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Published
2014-07-31
How to Cite
Grigoriadou E. (2014). Photography and the Documentary Writing of the Institutional archive. Escritura e Imagen, 10, 77-96. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESIM.2014.v10.46402
Issue
Vol. 10 (2014)
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Articles

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