“Mi casa, su casa”. La subjetivación del espacio íntimo como imagen representada.

• Main Author: Raquel Queiroz Ferreira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Museo de Antropologia 2010-10-01
• Series: Revista del Museo de Antropologia
• Subjects: house; microcosm; intimate space; image; photography
• Online Access: http://publicaciones.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/285/296

What do the houses say about the persons who live them? What is to be showed and what not? How to negotiate the permission to observe/photograph them already be so private and intimate spaces?This study take an extract of registry of an amateur research – published in a blog – about the way of life inscribed in the homeloving space. It analyzes the process of creation and obtaining images in some houses. First, it examines them as space of the intimacy (Bachelard 1975) and organizated microcosms (Bourdieu 1990), observing the particularity of the object photographed about this images. Afterwards, it analyzes the preparation of the space for possibles socials interactions (Goffman 2004). The ordering ordering of objects in space is thought as photograph com- of objects in space is thought as photograph of objects in space is thought as photograph com- com com--position and frame. Finally, it treats the representations of the person in his house as an advance of image (Barthes 1980). This analysis is preliminary and takes part in the interesting subject beign developped for a master’s thesis.