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Tese de mestrado, Arte Multimédia, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2013Acompanhada por 1 DVD com video, catalogado separadamente, apenas visível na Biblioteca da FBAULThe dissertation is theoretical and practical. Discusses the effect of mediation that the camera produces in a singular moment, showing several examples of the way that it affects both the behavior both in the behavior of people who that are at the front and at the rear of the lens. This Fact makes the photographic act make certain events to be prolonged, interrupted or even repeated. Are also presented several cases which concern the relationship of photography as a substitute for the original, such as the labeled tourist’s photography assumed as a substitute for the repetition of the travel and the photography as a replica of a work of art. At the beginning of the dissertation is described the social and cultural framework of the advent of photography and the particularities attached to the various stages of its history. The installation Backstage, is the artistic part and practical component of the dissertation, which questions the photography as the best way to remember a particular moment. To achieve this goal, the viewer can see the piece but at the same time is denied by the artist the possibility to photograph it, being the photography occulted whenever a visitor demonstrates the intention of photograph it. It is wanted to make conscious the use of the camera and multiple consequences of choosing to use entail