Vol. 11 No. 2 (2018): Aesthetics of Photography
Monographica

Lo scarto visuale e il supplemento dell’immagine: le «scritture di luce» del campo di concentramento di Mauthausen

Renato Boccali
Università IULM, Milano

Published 2018-11-04

Keywords

  • Mauthausen camp,
  • photography,
  • trace,
  • Derrida

How to Cite

Boccali, R. (2018). Lo scarto visuale e il supplemento dell’immagine: le «scritture di luce» del campo di concentramento di Mauthausen. Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi dell’estetico, 11(2), 165–177. https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-23408

Abstract

The aims of the present paper is to analyse the specific visual regime of some never-before-exhibited photographs displayed at the photographic exhibition organised for the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Mauthausen camp in 2005. I will proceed accordingly to a three steps process. First of all, I will try to show how photographs can be considered as a form of writing, namely a “light writing”. I will then provide a general overview of the catalogue of the exhibition but through a decomposition and reassembly of the photographic images, trying to work for a decentralization of the gaze beyond the documentary value of these photographs. Finally, I will draw some conclusions, proposing further reflections on photography as “trace” and “supplement” of the visible. 

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