About known landscapes and anonymous bodies : photographic memories of the Mediterranean migratory flow.

Nos ?ltimos trinta anos, uma s?rie de fotografias jornal?sticas que retrata o drama de africanos e m?dio-orientais tentando (e quase sempre fracassando em) cruzar o Mediterr?neo tem produzido mem?rias sobre a quest?o migrat?ria. Este artigo parte da an?lise de algumas dessas imagens a fim de discutir de que modo ? constru??o memorial?stica, conformada a partir de certa pol?tica do testemunho, pode ser capaz de entrela?ar dever de mem?ria e dever civil de a??o. Trabalha-se com imagens que estabelecem rela??o entre as paisagens conhecidas (do mar e da praia) e os corpos an?nimos (de imigrantes cujas identidades e trajet?rias permanecem indefinidas) que parecem desestabiliz?-las, uma rela??o marcada pela no??o de fronteira ? a qual, ao mesmo tempo em que serve para separar, abre uma possibilidade de unir o familiar e o estranho.In the last thirty years, a series of journalistic photographs that portray the drama of Africans and Middle Easterners attempting (and usually failing to) to cross the Mediterranean Sea has built memories on the issue of migration. This article analyzes some of those photos to discuss how the construction of memory, based on a certain politics of testimony, may be able to associate the duties of memory and the duties of civil action. Special attention is paid to images that establish a relation between well-known landscapes (of the sea and of the beach) and anonymous bodies (of immigrants whose identities and trajectories remain indefinite) that seem to destabilize them, a relationship marked by the notion of boundary ? serving to separate, but also to open up a possibility of unification of the familiar and the strange