Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, Vilém Flusser upholds the philosophy of photography as necessary for reflection on how to live freely in a world programmed by devices. Flusser’s approach delves into photography as praxis in an attempt to understand the medium. In [...]

While traveling in New York, philosopher Vilém Flusser, who had lived in Brazil for two decades, visited the studio of Brazilian artist Antonio Henrique Amaral to see his Campos de Batalha series, which consisted of the works on canvas on the banana [...]

In his essay “O instrumento do fotógrafo ou o fotógrafo do instrumento?,” Vilém Flusser sets out to show that it is no longer possible to conceive of the photographic machine as just another instrument of production and to refuse to recognize [...]

In fairly didactic fashion, Vilém Flusser explains that the materiality of photography is provisional. It differs from traditional images because it is produced by a device and readily reproducible. Photography’s rejection of the support means an [...]