Keywords

• In a photograph does everything happen on its surface? Are there other interstitial dimensions and spaces through which it is possible to overcome the rhetoric of its mimesis? The text explores the possibility of considering the depth of the surface as a testing ground for new discussions on photography. The material body of the individual photographic objects
• like the one of their sedimentations in the form of collections and archives
• may lead to the theme of depth as an original dimension which would give rise to all the others. Starting with an approach based on the materiality of the photographs the 'depth/surface' relationship is identified
• according to which there is no photograph without the support and there is no photographic image without the surface. This is thus the basis for a subsequent verification and nexus. From the material photographic object
• from its being a palimpsest of the signs of social uses over time
• it therefore shifts to the one of cosa (object
• thing)
• which from the Latin causa (cause) refers to what we deem so important as to mobilize us in its defence
• invested with meanings over time