This book is the result of the transcription of the Debate entitled "A fotografia documental como comentário" (Documental Photography as a comment), with the guests António Pedrosa and Lara Jacinto. This Debate made part of the 2014 program of the Cycle of debates, round tables and workshops, related to the course of Photography at the Faculty of Architecture of University of Porto. These cycles were open to all the academic community and to external groups and institutions with interest in the practice and discipline of Architecture's Photography. 

Authors and Editors: Pedro Leão Neto (ed.), António Pedrosa, Lara Jacinto

About this collection

The collection Debates is the medium of disclosure of the authors that had participated in debates, conferences through articles, projects or works seen of interest and with significative quality. Works that in a way promote a widen reflection on Architecture images, being understood as a practice and a discipline able to integrate the social-economic, political, historical and technical domains. This means, between other things, to reflect about the contribute of the images in the comprehension of reality and the construction of imaginaries, between the document and the fiction, between the reproduction and the manipulation, between the analog and the digital. The collection, which will be opened to many conferences, will be the main medium of disclosure of the internacional conference On the Surface.

The universe of interest of the scopio Editions is, in general terms, the one of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) and, in specific terms, the one of the Documental and Artistic Photography related to Architecture, City and Territory.

Porto, 2012

57 pages
ISBN 978-989-97699-5-3