REFLECTIONS FOR A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PHOTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

O develop an analysis that considers the complex photographic process that results in a photograph, and that, in turn, gains a direction (among many possible ones) from the moment where is observed by a receiver, the necessity becomes urgent to work in a multidisciplinary perspective. A survey on theories concerning the photograph showed that most of the authors tends to treat photographies or by the iconic way (its internal configuration) or by the indicial way (detaching its physical connection with the referring one), in exclusive and not articulated way. Assuming that a photographic analysis cannot leave of being considered in the many movements that regulates the signification in the middle of the societies, we decided to discard the possibility to interpret photographs being considered only one or another aspect that them are inherent. In contrast, to give account of a more complex and including analysis, it

becomes necessary to congregate and to articulate deriving information from different areas of the knowledge. Thus, perspective semiotics of Peirce, that developed a scientific philosophy of the languages as an instrument that allowed the dialogue with many areas of the knowledge, in an not static and not structural way, showed as a fruitful land in the direction to benefit a dynamic and multidisciplinary analysis, that promises to give account of the photographic complexity. For this, we will set more specifically, its formal categories of the experience, that deal with the sign in relation to the object: the icon, the index and the symbol.