Unpresentness and anachronism in the contemporary photography

Abstract This paper discusses the individuation conditions of the so-called contemporary photography by examining the notion of anachronism in different artworks and authors as Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman. The construction of visual discursivity in art as a matter of communication comes from the idea that it would exist, in nowadays particular images, an unpresentness perceivable through persistent pictorial traces and issues of other times, particularly in art history. The relevance of thinking on the experience of photography in art points to its contributions for discussing communicative aspects of photography, mostly the representation that order the visible, as well as their operations that mediate our relationship with the world through the image.