Visages "mangés" par les détails. Réflexions autour d’une double rhétorique de la ressemblance aux débuts de la photographie

The particularly ambiguous position of the detail in relation to first photographic portraits is explored in the context of the construction of the idea of resemblance in photography’s very earliest days. Through contemporary writing and by analysing the images the aim is to define the complex role...

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Main Author: Maddalena Parise
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Language:fra
Published: Centre d´Histoire et Théorie des Arts 2006-09-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/190
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description The particularly ambiguous position of the detail in relation to first photographic portraits is explored in the context of the construction of the idea of resemblance in photography’s very earliest days. Through contemporary writing and by analysing the images the aim is to define the complex role of the detail in establishing a double rhetoric of photographic resemblance intended, from its beginnings, to be as much constructed (by the means of representation) as exact (by effect of reference). Depending on its quality, its position, and how it is received, the detail is the mark of this ambiguity, as it presents itself both as the illusion of perfect imitation and as a recalcitrant presence of the subject. This analysis is deliberately limited to the daguerreotype in so far as this object, often reduced to the status of emblem of photographic exactitude, still condenses the contradictions of an image constructed according to the means of representation while at the same time producing the troubling effect of a presence.
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Visages "mangés" par les détails. Réflexions autour d’une double rhétorique de la ressemblance aux débuts de la photographie
Images Re-Vues
portrait
daguerréotype
Arasse (Daniel)
détail
icône
ressemblance
title Visages "mangés" par les détails. Réflexions autour d’une double rhétorique de la ressemblance aux débuts de la photographie
title_full Visages "mangés" par les détails. Réflexions autour d’une double rhétorique de la ressemblance aux débuts de la photographie
title_fullStr Visages "mangés" par les détails. Réflexions autour d’une double rhétorique de la ressemblance aux débuts de la photographie
title_full_unstemmed Visages "mangés" par les détails. Réflexions autour d’une double rhétorique de la ressemblance aux débuts de la photographie
title_short Visages "mangés" par les détails. Réflexions autour d’une double rhétorique de la ressemblance aux débuts de la photographie
title_sort visages manges par les details reflexions autour d une double rhetorique de la ressemblance aux debuts de la photographie
topic portrait
daguerréotype
Arasse (Daniel)
détail
icône
ressemblance
url https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/190
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