Per una autobiografia fotografica

The essay explores a zone of life writing, which is still almost uncharted: the photographic mémoire, whose authors collect and order pictures in order to shape their autobiographic narrations. The analysis is exemplified taking into account a prototypical text of this literary genre, Giorgio Agamben’s "Autoritratto nello studio" (2017).The essay explores a zone of life writing, which is still almost uncharted: the photographic mémoire, whose authors collect and order pictures in order to shape their autobiographic narrations. The analysis is exemplified taking into account a prototypical text of this literary genre, Giorgio Agamben’s "Autoritratto nello studio" (2017)