A representação ético-estética do corpo na fotografia contemporânea

Abstract

Having as objective the understanding of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in photography, more specifically regarding the representation of the body, this research seeks to understand the process of signification of the image. Due to its indexical characteristic as an image generated by a mechanical process, and so singular in the visual representations, the photographic image stands out with respect to its representation of visually coded reality. Applying methodologies of different authors in the evaluation and analysis of ethical discourse and aesthetic construction, were combined two ways of perception of the image, producing its own methodology, directed to the discussion of the conflicts caused by the representation of immoral as beautiful. Through the understanding of the mechanisms of visual communication by the theories of Peirce, Bazin, Barthes, Sontag e Dubois; the relations between art and ethics from Keiran and Gaut; of studies on the phenomenological and analytical aesthetic and research of methodologies and its application to evaluation of photographic images produced since the early twentieth century, it was possible to obtain relevant data for the analysis of formal construction and moral positioning of the resulting work. This approach has resulted in the proposal of a methodology of ethical and aesthetic evaluation that allows the spectator to understand, analyze and evaluate the photographic work of art.