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Abstract

BEYOND IMAGE. Proposal of a mathematical equation (matema) for photography is a text elaborated as an Essay for the Master in Painting of the College of Arts at the Lisbon University, years 2009/2011, having Prof. Dr. Tomás Maia as supervisor. The essay focus in demonstrate an equivalence between photography and an unconscious fantasy, having as a goal to propose a self mathematic equation for photography. Begins with a description of optical studies that preceded the photographic camera, followed by Holy Faces and the Shroud’s stories and tales, as a form of taking into consideration the archeological origin of the idea and the rhetoric of photography. In a second phase the work disserts on the religious belief in the Shroud and photography to confirm them as a deny of death and a support basis to the desire of immortality through the pathos of photography. At last it presents a psychoanalytical approach showing the concepts of death´s drive, life´s drive and object a, to establish the structural equivalence of photography with an unconscious fantasy and propose a mathematical equation (matema)