32 Fictions July 2003

CONTROLLING THE OBJECTS

Margarida Medeiros
Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Portuguese

This paper wants to relate photography and fiction starting from the analysis of some particular images and the discourses that were produced around them (Hyppolite Bayard, Duane Michals). The aim of the question is to point out photography as a privileged medium to exercise the imaginary control of the object of desire e for the presentification of phantasmatic ideas of the subject, either by the reception/manipulation of images, either by their production.