The photographic act as an experience of knowledge creation The act in front of the extract

Abstract

The article addresses the development of the photographic act, from an artistic, aesthetic and symbolic perspective, as an essentially technological medium that articulates a contemporary way of creating new sensitive knowledge. In this way, a journey through the characteristics that would define the photographic act is proposed, based on these conceptual premises. Faced with the act, the idea of the extract is opposed, as an obitrological and unhealthy process that crosses the photographic practises of the present. This development is reached through experimentation and observation in teaching and research practice for several years. Finally, the photographic act is defined, transcending the theoretical precedents, as a complex form of construction of knowledge and the creation of sensible worlds, which allows opening new ways of knowledge and broadening the vision and gaze on the world and on ourselves with in relation to how we look at that world and build it with our eyes.