From photography to post-photography. Camera obscura of immortality. Baudelaire / Barthes (virtual image, electronic devices, selfies)

Abstract

In this essay, we will analyse the meaning of photography and the image in modernity from Charles Baudelaire to Roland Barthes, focusing on the central space that visual arts occupy in digital media (the virtual world) and in the lives of people, in the social and private space. We will analyse the transition from photography to post-photography, and consequently, the artistic and philosophical theorization around media power of images in modern and contemporary societies determined by the advances of new technologies and and its manifestations such as selfies and new electronic devices.