Caio Reisewitz: tendência ao grande formato na fotografia

Abstract

Using the semiotics-based genetic criticism proposed in the last decade by Cecília Almeida Salles of the Semiotics and Communication Program of Pontifícia Universidade de São Paulo, this study concerns contemporary photography, with a specific focus on the creative process of Brazilian photographer Caio Reisewitz, his artworks and his career within the Brazilian and international cultural scene.

The dissertation begins by outlining the evolution of Reisewitz s photographic work, with special emphasis on the most emblematic. It then goes on to analyze his drawings, that is, the documents of his production process that were located throughout this study and which register the development of the thought that structured his main photographic installations. Based on this analysis, we arrive at some processual procedures inherent to this medium, which arose as his research progressed, and which proved decisive for the determination of his current production. This set of procedures bears relation to issues involved in the creative process, indicating choices and links that guided Caio Reisewitz s poetic project in the period studied, as well as the artist s dialogue with contemporary photography worldwide. In so doing, this study maps Reisewitz s production, describes how this photographer is inserted in the cultural circuit galleries, institutions and museums and shows how, over time, the large-format construction came about in his photography, as well as how the phases of his work construed in terms of the creative process evolved