PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE, MEMORY, UPDATE AND AWAKENING

Abstract

The present work approaches the subject of photographic image, assemblage, memory and updating, according to Walter Benjamin’s conceptual principles. Its goal is to problematize these subjects over the photographic images of an eviction occurred in 1999 in Jardim Maria Virgínia (JMV), a slum located in Campo Limpo, in the south area of the city of São Paulo. In 2011 the inhabitants of the slum were interviewed in the same social space. Photos taken in 1999, at the moment of the eviction, were shown to them, and they were asked to choose the most meaningful ones and make an assemblage after it. From the narration of the inhabitants, possible contributions of photographic images in updating past and present were identified, as well as their echoes in the resignification of memory.