Imagens do passado e do futuro: o papel da fotografia entre memória e projeção

Abstract

The theme of this article is the issue of memory related to photography and its possible alterations due to an exponential increase in the production and sharing of images. Startingoff from both a philosophy of photography (Barthes, Virilio, Flusser) and a philosophy of images and the imaginary (Belting, Bachelard, Durand, Eliade, Merleau-Ponty), we problematize memory as a carrier of the past in a context of ephemerality of the now and dissolution of the stability of categories such as time and space. We propose the idea of memory as anticipation more than recollection. The conclusion is that the part of photography, despite its dematerialization and detemporization, is intact for the anticipatory memory, which updates the mythical past in order to respond to a desire for what is coming.