La fotografía como dispositivo mágico

Abstract

In popular lore, photography has to its credit a series of marvelous potentialities: that it can be used in magical spells, that it is capable of stealing the soul with just one click ... Affirmations all that fit in the chapter of the mythologies of the technique and that survive in the contemporary world, even in the most militant spheres of positive thought. The book, on which this article is based, is the result of an exhaustive investigation, proposes a thesis: that in effect the photographic device It has characteristics that allow it to function as a magical thinking tool. A journey that will address the historical, technical, media and conceptual processes in which photography has been applied from its invention to the present day.