A fotografia em David Lachapelle

Abstract

This study aims to examine critically the use of the photography system as a means towards the construction of discourses and a worldview summoned by an enunciator. The analysis' corpus is made up by David Lachapelle's (in the character of the enunciation actor) snapshots collected in his first book, Lachapelle Land (1996). This analysis is based on the discursive semiotics' framework; on Greimas' studies about meaning construction; on sociosemiotics; on plastic semiotics and Jean-Marie Floch's postulations about plasticity's role on signification building; on enhancements of semiotics theory as a theory of social interaction formulated by Landowski and Ana Claudia de Oliveira's contributions about sensible expression as global enunciation that proposes the discursive field of experience between enunciator and enunciatee. The content on the snapshots is considered taking into account the constructions of the enunciator given by means of semantic-syntactic employed as a way to evidence an axiologic system. The shaping elements of the expression level (eidetic, topologic, chromatic e materic) are the plastic resources chosen by the enunciator the sense effect of which is make visible a discourse about the world weavered using the photographic expression system and its sensible exploitation. The enunciative connection is constructed on photography having as discursive basis intertextuality and allowing to infer the enunciator's character by means of the discursive tools employed on the construction of Lachapelle's intertextual enunciation. The enunciatee is summoned to bring forth an interpretative making. It requires knowledge of other artistic works cited on the snapshot and take into considerations the sensible procedures used by the enunciator. Through these cognitive and sensible competences, the enunciator invites the enunciatee to process the collaborative sense construction