The Photo - A Support Practice Poetics of a Plastic Experiment around the Photographic Medium

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Imene M. Challouf

Abstract

Although it is the essential element in the photographic representation, since it is the surface on which a shot will be projected and a luminous imprint (trace) will be materialized, plastic research concerning sensitive photo paper as a material was very timid: they were limited to the level of representation and plasticity of the image only.


The next plastic practice would be a series of experiments through which I sought to point out the essential role of the medium (photo-sensitive paper) in the "manufacture" of the photographic image as well as the questioning of its artistic value. Above all, I wanted to open the field to experimentation in the practice of photography and to highlight the materiality of the photographic medium through the personal interventions that I carried out on this sensitive paper. The medium which was the object in which the information to be transmitted is incorporated and stored (the photographic image) will then become, following my manipulations, an object, another, bearer of materiality which will be revealed by the gesture and the repetition of the gesture. Thus the materiality of the support in itself becomes a revelation and the revelation of the materiality of the support becomes the very founding act of the photographic image, which, during this experiment, will borrow a new plastic dimension, including the principle of base will be posed on the how of a result in the concretization of the materiality of the photographic support.

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