Photography and memory in Information Science

Abstract

The article, besides rendering homage to Eduardo Ismael Murguia, reiterates the memory from two language forms: visual and verbal; in other words, attempts to give visibility to the photographic process and the production of written which includes photography as a field of knowledge. In this sense, it seeks to establish a link between photography as a theoretical object in the field of Art History (Krauss, 2002) and Information Science (Wersing, 1993). It is expected that article bring contributions that signal, the diachronic way, the photograph as document and information, whose first time included the recognition ofthe treaty of documentation of Paul Otlet in 1934. The methodology consists of a review of literature discussing the picture in terms of memories, science information and its relationship with the binomial Memory/History. It is inferred that the place of production of information, visual and/or verbal, is equivalent to a historiographical operation that resizes the place, practice and social outcomes of construction and issue of human and scientific knowledge.