Photograph and War: staging and punctum in the 19th century

Abstract

This text searches to bring close the image production to the wars, studying more carefully some photographs of Timothy O’Sullivan, made during the American Civil War, and of Flávio de Barros, during the last Army’s campaign against the jagunços of Antonio Conselheiro, in Canudos. With the theories of Benjamin, Agamben and Barthes, the intention is to work with something, an effect, that scape the image’s destiny of document.