Conference
Italian
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2268/65010>
Abstract
this article examines the kind of photographic portrait and dead nature by linking them to the depiction of the disease and body deformation. A corpus of photographic images of the artist J.-P. Witkin, which show bodies affected by organ malfunction, are analysed. The latter are not depicted as living and unique bodies, different from what happens in the pictorial kind of portrait (which involves a special form of life), but as objects of design or as dead natures. This research thus highlights the gap between stabilised genera in the pictorial tradition and photographic genera.