Fascination with the latent. Unveiled reverse side ofschool photographic images

Abstract

This paper analyzes what the photographic images tell us on their reverse and in the traces of the verse, either through annotations, marks or descriptions they contain, which provide important information about their context of production, the subjects or objects photographed and of his trajectory. Thus, an appropriate sense of the image is configured for certain users. It focuses on school photographic images because they represent a space of particular coexistence and exchange of experiences that, to some extent, are captured and protected in them. In the folds, in the darkened or worn edges, in the withered margins and in the marks of rust or other materials, it is also possible to find stories, remnants of memories, affections and faces in a counterpoint that goes beyond the motivation of the photographer to capture the moment in a specific frame. For the analysis, some photographic images belonging to a school archive of an educational center are presented, since they allow revealing the family, mnemonic and community meaning that they acquire when they meet in that repertoire. This value also emerges from the observation of the hidden material on the back and the marks on the back of the photographic images.