A fotografia em unidades de informação: valor informativo e permanente

Abstract

It will be a theoretical revision on photography as a permanent document of proven value, informative and historical, collected and accumulated in information units (archive, library, museum). In addition to the inherent peculiarities of each of these units, the photographic collection is archived as a documentary set, in a library as a collection, and in a museum as pieces. Photography is a documentary medium that exerts immense fascination, for recording the image as it is and, because it is polysemous, it thus provides infinite representation and interpretation. We will highlight a study about photography as a document disseminating information, its relevance and the relationship it has with several areas of knowledge. It will be concluded that, because it has specific characteristics, including related to the support, photography needs different treatments, based on studies in texts by authors dedicated to the better understanding of this peculiar document, analyzed from the point of view of the archive, The library and the museum.